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Answer for the clue "He won't quit ", 7 letters:
battler

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Word definitions for battler in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Batteler \Bat"tel*er\, Battler \Bat"tler\, n. [See 2d Battel , n.] A student at Oxford who is supplied with provisions from the buttery; formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. --Wright.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Battler may refer to: Battler (album) , 2009 album Battler (underdog) , an Australian and New Zealand colloquialism describing a sector of a society HMS Battler (D18) , an escort aircraft carrier Barcode Battler , a handheld gaming console " The Battler ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 One who wages battle against an enemy; a soldier; a general. 2 (context Australian dated English) An itinerant worker or unemployed person. 3 One who who works hard in the face of adversity. Etymology 2 n. (alternative form of batteler ...

Usage examples of battler.

In a trice, the cloaked battler was confronted with a situation that he had scarcely foreseen.

The Shadow had dropped, this forgotten battler had stumbled upon a saber.

The horse was capable of it on his day, and I knew him to be a competent jumper and a willing battler in a close finish.

The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.

After fourteen stormy years the two friends, who more than any others were responsible for the launching of the Third Retch, for its terror and its degradation, who though they had often disagreed had stood together in the moments of crisis and defeats and disappointments, had come to a parting of the ways, and the scar-faced, brawling battler for Hitler and Nazism had come to the end of his violent life.

From a sullen, disgruntled crook, he became the murderous battler that he had been before.

As if to demonstrate her prowess as a battler, she freed her hands and beat at his chest.

The Battler fell into a clinch, but the Cyclone broke away and, measuring his distance, picked up a haymaker from the floor and put it over.

If Ted was anything, he was a battler, and he called upon his immense Polish ferocity to wage the most important fight of his life.

As if to demonstrate her prowess as a battler, she freed her hands and beat at his chest.

All three battlers were within range, now, but it was imperative that they achieve both high coordination and high precision in their attack.

One of the battlers had been destroyed, a second so badly damaged that it might well be useful only as salvage.

Information retained during my period of semir-dormant captivity indicates that these are ground battlers, high-speed tanks massing perhaps 4,000 tons apiece, with particle cannons in quad or quint hull-mounted arrays.

She was well dressed, in a casual way, and Malone wondered if she looked as elegant as this, Monday to Friday, when handing out comfort and advice to the battlers.

Life was getting tough for the battlers, even the middle-class yuppies.