palooka

Example Sentences

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The fight game is littered with champions who stayed too long and devolved into clichéd palookas.

From Seattle Times

Frankly, I was stunned by her ignorance, which I attributed to her upbringing in Philadelphia, a town evidently containing only fishmongers, punch-drunk palookas and waterfront Mafia enforcers.

From Washington Post

Like Primo Carnera, Hillary had faced so many palookas in her career she had forgotten that the fights had been rigged until she got to the heavyweight bout.

From Fox News

But by that point in this predictably rousing and emotionally generous movie, his warning, spoken by Sylvester Stallone with his usual weather-beaten palooka gravitas, comes rather too late.

From Los Angeles Times

He had just returned from the Venice Film Festival, where “The Bleeder,” a biopic based on the life of the palooka Chuck Wepner, had screened out of competition.

From New York Times