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strongarm
noun- a crime involving brute physical violence; a violent criminal US, 1901
- In both cases he was employed by businesses who needed strong-arm boys. — Mickey Spillane, My Gun is Quick, p. 76, 1950
- And, one by one, three more rothstein strong-arms were burned, cut, mutilated and killed. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 12, 1956
- Strong-arms. I did lotsa strong-arms nobody knows about. — Joseph Wambaugh, Fugitive Nights, p. 176, 1992
- a person who lends physicality and a capacity for brutal physical force to the moment US, 1907
Also called “strongarm man”. - The strong-arm men get all their money and they are broke. — Willard Motley, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 188, 1958
- Most of these tough ones had worked as strongarm men for Dutch Schultz[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 87, 1964
- Bad too, big stud, used to be strongarm for the politicals in Havana. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 12, 1975
- [H]e became a strongarm man for the emerging gangster Jack Dragna[.] — Brian McDonald, Elephant Boys, p. 102, 2000
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