street fighter

or street-fighter

noun

1. a person whose style of fistfighting was learned in the streets, as opposed to a trained or proficient boxer.
2. a person who deals with others in an aggressive, cunning manner.

Other Words From

• street-fighting noun adjective

Example Sentences

He quotes the great philosophers, but he turns his players into street fighters, and that’s what he’s done here.

From Los Angeles Times

Like the cops, crooks and gangland toughs who populate his books, Don Winslow has something of a street fighter’s mentality.

From New York Times

Jordan has been a right-wing bomb thrower and ruthless partisan street fighter from the start.

From Salon

“I’m a street fighter. They would have had a battle on their hands.”

From New York Times

“He is a street fighter who has become a publisher, a businessman, an educator and a de facto politician of great substance,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson says at one point.

From Los Angeles Times