Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who brawls; a noisy fellow; a wrangler.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One that brawls; wrangler.
  • noun (Law) one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who brawls, engages in noisy, unseemly fights.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a fighter (especially one who participates in brawls)

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Examples

  • The original Karateka was what might loosely be termed a brawler, and saw you travelling deep into the heart of a forbidding oriental fortress to rescue a captured princess.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Greg Tannahill 2008

  • I can name four people who are closely associated with Mayor Fenty publicly, and only one of them helps him politically, even marginally: Consigliore Peter Nickles; Chancellor Michelle Rhee; Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity brother Sinclair Skinner; and Ron Moten, self-described 'brawler' and Fenty-described 'great Washingtonian.'

    DeMorning DeBonis: June 28, 2010 2010

  • Almost two decades after Moten was jailed for selling crack in Petworth, the community activist and self-described "brawler" is emerging as an influential force in the race between Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C.

    Peaceoholics' Moten, a Fenty ally, emerges as a force in D.C. mayoral race 2010

  • Almost two decades after Moten was jailed for selling crack in Petworth, the community activist and self-described "brawler" is emerging as an influential force in the race between Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C.

    Peaceoholics' Moten, a Fenty ally, emerges as a force in D.C. mayoral race 2010

  • And Fenty has publicly praised Ron Moten -- the Peaceoholics founder and bare-knuckle "brawler" who benefited from millions in city contracts under Fenty -- as a "great Washingtonian."

    Gray, Fenty scramble for ethical high ground in D.C. mayoral race 2010

  • Almost two decades after Moten was jailed for selling crack in Petworth, the community activist and self-described "brawler" is emerging as an influential force in the race between Fenty and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent C.

    Peaceoholics' Moten, a Fenty ally, emerges as a force in D.C. mayoral race 2010

  • But she dangerously dismisses racism as a factor in drawing white male voters to Hillary Clinton's campaign in her New York Times op-ed essay this week Instead she endorses Clinton's archetype as a "brawler" who gets "down with the boys". as a model for women candidates in the future.

    Tom Hayden: Not The Time To Celebrate Clinton As Brawler 2008

  • As for the gameplay, senior producer Jeronimo Barrera took the "brawler" genre -- 2-D fighting games like Double Dragon that had become passe -- and spectacularly reinvented it by incorporating advances from its more recent titles, most notably the ability to give orders to one's fellow gang members.

    Why Rockstar Is the Leader of the Pack 2007

  • A throwback middle linebacker, Erickson's nose for the ball and love of contact make him the kind of brawler who would thrive in football's leather helmet era.

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  • We hear there's some kind of brawler customisation and multiplayer combat - and could that be a Metroid influence in the second screen below?

    Cubed3.com News 2009

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