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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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And it was also clear that the teaching unions needed something of a bruiser in the ministerial office to deliver change.
Shushepin had landed a real bruiser on his jaw, and it started to swell up immediately.
It is true that he looks a bit of a bruiser and has played the role of a hardman in EastEnders, but that is only make-believe.
No doubt your husband is an intellectual bruiser, but these are hardly Mensa-level topics.
He was a lord of language and the most feared political bruiser of his time.
The fish itself was a big bruiser of a portion that looked like it bullied everyone in the schoolyard.

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