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Strong-arm   /strɔŋ-ɑrm/   Listen
Strong-arm

adjective
1.
Impelled by physical force especially against resistance.  Synonyms: forcible, physical.  "A real cop would get physical" , "Strong-arm tactics"



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"Strong-arm" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mead, a local physician in a little town across the border of New York and New Jersey. The more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was extremely unlikely that it could have been an accident, after all. Might it not have been the result of an attack or a trap laid by some strong-arm man who had set out to get him and had almost succeeded in accomplishing his purpose of "getting him right," to use the ...
— Guy Garrick • Arthur B. Reeve

... be done on short notice. The work I do with my second two-spot is going to be smoother, and there won't be so much beefing after the pot is raked in. Too much hollering, and your game gets raided! I can see what would happen to me—Julius Marston doing it—if I give the strong-arm squad an opening. But if they see the little Fogg boy slip a card in the next deal he's going to make—well, I'll eat the Montana, if that's the only way to ...
— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day



Words linked to "Strong-arm" :   forceful, tyrannize, strong-armer, tyrannise, bully, physical, beat, treat, do by, domineer, work over, push around, beat up, handle, ballyrag, intimidate



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