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What is a bruiser?

What is a bruiser? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (sports) In contact sports, an athlete whose size, strength, and/or aggressiveness make it likely that he will cause athletes on the opposing team to suffer physical punishment.
  2. (by extension) a tall, strong, heavily built man, especially one prone to physical violence; a thug.
  3. A machine for bruising oats.
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He was a lord of language and the most feared political bruiser of his time.
Mr de Klerk, a political bruiser, denies that this is the end of the party's efforts at reinvention.
In Stand By Me, Phoenix played a bruiser who knew he deserved better than a dead-end future, but was smart enough to know he wouldn't get it.
At six foot five, with huge forearms and long legs, Brown looks like a bruiser, but he's actually a big softy, both on and off the track.
As a child, Sam was a little bruiser, always looking for mischief.
Shushepin had landed a real bruiser on his jaw, and it started to swell up immediately.

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