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Cartoon boxer Joe
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palooka
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"mediocre prizefighter," 1926, of unknown origin, credited to U.S. sportswriter and "Variety" staffer Jack Conway (d.1928). Non-boxing sense of "average person" is from Joe Palooka , hero of Ham Fisher's comic strip.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Palooka is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff starring Jimmy Durante and based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher . The movie was adapted by Jack Jevne , Arthur Kober , Gertrude Purcell , Murray Roth and Ben Ryan from the comic ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a second-rate prize fighter [syn: stumblebum ]
Usage examples of palooka.
Now, at fifty-five, he might be mistaken for a prizefighter who stayed in the sport too long: cauliflower ears, portobello nose, the humility of a basically sweet palooka who has learned the hard way that brute strength does not a champion make.
For the first time in his life, he owned a luxurious home, decorated just the way that he and Gay had wanted, and he could turn around to all those capitalist palookas who had tried to crush him, and grind him and his union out of existence, and he could raise two rigid fingers.
If consensus had been reached I hadn't heard, and half of these palookas had forgotten it by now.
Poor Jimnmy Carter issues orders from the White House-some `Joint Chiefs of Staff' palookas issue orders from the Pentagon-thousands of miles away in a godfor-.