Definition of bruiser
a person who is tough and aggressive and enjoys a fight or argument.
And it was also clear that the teaching unions needed something of a bruiser in the ministerial office to deliver change.
Example of bruiser
a decent, gentle bruiser who almost knocked out one the greatest heavyweights of all time
A heavyweight bruiser called Andrei Arlovski tops the bill.
And it was also clear that the teaching unions needed something of a bruiser in the ministerial office to deliver change.
And she's in vibrant form here in this her seventieth year; she's certainly up to the challenge of handling the Detroit bruiser .
As a child, Sam was a little bruiser , always looking for mischief.
Davis would make a good leader of the opposition, as he is a bruiser .
Dryden accidentally clipped the notorious bruiser across the nose with his stick.
Ducker is a bruiser with moves, but he was hurt much of last year.
He has been swiftly replaced by a bearded cabinet minister, renowned as a no-nonsense, hardline political bruiser with the sort of right-wing policies you never dreamed you'd see from the Labour Party.
He was a lord of language and the most feared political bruiser of his time.