street fighter

noun

: a tough belligerent person
a political street fighter

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Daniels and Lawless, standing behind him with a crowd of people, were both struck in the chest while the street fighter was hit in the arm. — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 24 May 2024 More than a decade after bringing Blackbriar to light, Bourne is in hiding as a street fighter in Greece. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Sep. 2025 Showing us how Dunk, even as a boy, was a formidable street fighter would have spilled over nicely to his ultimate Aerion smackdown. — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 Feb. 2026 Populists who preferred a street fighter to a statesman; a domestic industrialist to a free trader; a quasi-isolationist to an internationalist. — David M. Drucker, Twin Cities, 26 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for street fighter

Word History

First Known Use

1970, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of street fighter was in 1970

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