knuckle-dragger

knuckle-dragger

A stupid, oafish person, especially a large man. An allusion to an ape. Often spelled without a hyphen. My sister has started dating some knuckle-dragger she met down at the gym, much to my parents' chagrin. That knuckle dragger over there is Marvin the Muscle. He works as an enforcer for the Rigatoni crime syndicate.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

knuckle-dragger

n. a strong and stupid man. (Like an ape.) Call off your knuckle-draggers. I’ll pay you whatever you want.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • diller
  • dillers
  • killer-diller
  • clucky
  • musclehead
  • meathead
  • go the knuckle
  • tweedledee and tweedledum
  • tweedledum
  • tweedledum and tweedledee
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The racist knuckle-dragger thought it appropriate to interrupt a private conversation and didn't consider that he might have caused offence.
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