BRAWLER Definition & Meaning

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brawler

[ braw-ler ]

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noun

a person who fights angrily, noisily, and roughly, often under the influence of alcohol:
He was a scrapper and brawler, a drunk and a bully, often hauled before the justices for punching someone.
a contentious or argumentative person:
No doubt about it—this congressman is a brawler, but it appears he’s all bark and no bite.
a practitioner of a style of boxing characterized by very powerful punches with little variety of technique or skilled footwork:
Most brawlers tend to walk into range with no jabs or setups and very little head movement.
any computer game of a genre that features hand-to-hand combat, often focused on a hero who is greatly outnumbered:
Join your favorite anime heroes for an epic fight to the finish in this old-school brawler.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of brawler¹

brawl ( def ) + -er ¹( def )

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Undeterred, Vance seems to be developing a role as a political brawler for Trump, going even further than the president in his outspoken criticism of the administration's foes.

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Moses, who went by “King Bobalouie,” made a name for himself as a fearless brawler who could take a punch as well as he could deliver one.

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That stifled voice might find comfort in watching Ritchson’s brawler get his bell rung and refuse to back down from the inevitable conflict that might break him.

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“You’ve got to be a brawler,” said Bill Miller, a longtime Republican strategist in Texas.

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His ads cultivated an image of a legal brawler whose menacing presence on the screen could be used in a plaintiff’s favor.

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