street fighter

Or street-fighter

noun

1. a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.

2. a person who deals with others in an aggressive, cunning manner.

Other Word Forms

• street-fighting noun

Example Sentences

Frazier was the street fighter, willing to wade into the action and take whatever damage that might bring so he could get close enough to inflict his own.

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“I’m a street fighter in politics,” Ford told Politico.

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“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.”

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He quotes the great philosophers, but he turns his players into street fighters, and that’s what he’s done here.

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Like the cops, crooks and gangland toughs who populate his books, Don Winslow has something of a street fighter’s mentality.

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