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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



... don't mean ordinary kidnapping. It's this way. Miss Ann come to me and we agree that the kid's a pest that had ought to have some strong-arm keep him in order, so we decide to get him away to a friend of mine who keeps a dogs' hospital down on Long Island. Bud Smithers is the guy to handle that kid. You ought to see him take hold of a dog that's all grouch and ugliness and make it over into a dog that it's a pleasure to have ...
— Piccadilly Jim • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse



Words linked to "Strong-arm" :   work over, tyrannize, domineer, beat, forceful, handle, do by, beat up, bullyrag, intimidate, tyrannise, treat



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