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bruiser

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I opened the door and saw this 250-pound bruiser standing there. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Just as I was getting comfortable with the 1993 vintage, a threesome of bruisers from Ridge Vineyards jumped me. ▪ Nygaard styles ...

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Bruiser is the third studio album by English band The Duke Spirit . It was released in 2011 and was produced and mixed by Andrew Scheps . "Everybody's Under Your Spell" had previously been released as the lead track of the band's Kusama EP from 2010, and ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a pugilist," 1744, agent noun from bruise (v.).

Usage examples of bruiser.

Bruiser and Christianson were dividing up a gigantic pile of half-raw rattlesnake caviar blintzes Caine walked in.

One of the bruisers held off the mob while Lord Bute leapt from his own coach to that of Lord Hardwicke.

From the Leggo to the Bruiser, no one in the hierarchy could understand how the nursing-home beds seemed to open at a touch for ward 6-South, and only for ward 6-South.

Beneath that cone of neat grey felt, behind the dreary, tallowed pigment of his face, which had that thickened, stunned, and deadened look one often sees upon the faces of old bruisers, as if the violent and furious assault of stone and steel, the million harsh metallic clangours, the brutal stupefaction of the streets, at length had dried the flesh and thickened the skin, and blunted, numbed and calloused the aching tumult of the tortured and tormented senses--there still flowed blood as red and wet as any which ever swarmed into the earth below the laurel bush.

Pendragon, and another story from the alderman, about his friend, young Tattersall, employing Scroggins the bruiser, disguised as a countryman to beat an impudent Highgate toll-keeper, who had grossly insulted him, finished the amusements of the day, which Mrs.

Her place was immediately taken by another Blackshirt and I knew it would take more than a punch in the mouth to deal with this mean-looking bruiser.

He had seen bruisers demolished by smaller men who knew what they were about.

To look a these testosterone-loaded bruisers you would guess that they were a bunch of illiterates who would be lucky if they could read the label on a Bud.

He fastened Schmeling and Pacelli, the bruiser and the ascetic, under the visors of the brown caps.

Not sure just what might chance on this risky business he was undertaking, he had left his invaluable spotted destrier, Bruiser, in Armagh, in the dedicated care of two of his squires, his pages, and his servants.

Then he turned, and took one of the bruisers by the lapels of his coat.

It was held in the hand of Kuzela himself, and by its light the two bruisers glared at each other, their reddened stares of hate aimed upwards and downwards respectively.

Simon Templar beamed around upon the congregation upon Kuzela, and upon the two bruisers who loafed about the room, and upon the negro who stood behind his chair.

Humpty Dump-ties, bruisers bulging at the midriff, children that weigh five times the weight of their peers in Dacca.

I wanted to protect everything, everyone, save for the Bastards: the world's money-grubbing bruisers, terrorists and the like.