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street fighter
noun
a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
a person who deals with others in an aggressive, cunning manner.
Other Word Forms
- street-fighting noun
Example Sentences
“I’m a street fighter in politics,” Ford told Politico.
“The same street fighter that wanted to be the chairman of Republicans in ultra-liberal San Francisco is going to take on the liberal establishment of the Civil Rights Division at the Justice Department.”
He quotes the great philosophers, but he turns his players into street fighters, and that’s what he’s done here.
Like the cops, crooks and gangland toughs who populate his books, Don Winslow has something of a street fighter’s mentality.
Jordan has been a right-wing bomb thrower and ruthless partisan street fighter from the start.
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