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Strong-arm

verb

Handle roughly.

Be bossy towards. Synonyms: ballyrag, boss around, browbeat, bully, bullyrag, hector, push around.

Use physical force against.

adjective

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

... of the platform. After a casual glance at the fellow, with his derby hat shoved far back from a low forehead, his blatantly conspicuous clothing, and the suspicious bulge under one arm-pit, Blake had mentally set him down as a minor gangster, probably a strong-arm man ...

— Zehru of Xollar • Hal K. Wells

... be done on short notice. The work I do with my second two-spot is going to be smoother, and there won't be so much beefing after the pot is raked in. Too much hollering, and your game gets raided! I can see what would happen to me—Julius Marston doing it—if I give the strong-arm squad an opening. But if they see the little Fogg boy slip a card in the next deal he's going to make—well, I'll eat the Montana, if that's the only way to ...

— Blow The Man Down - A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 • Holman Day

... these strong-arm movements are alike. I'll bet Umluana's lieutenants are hoping he'll become a dead legend. Then they can become ...

— The Green Beret • Thomas Edward Purdom

... Colonel Pepper, drawing Lane aside. "Swann and his strong-arm gang just got foxy. They quit for a while. Now they're rushing the girls in there—say from four to five—and in the evenings a little while, not too late. Oh, they're the slick bunch, picking out the ice cream soda hour when everybody's ...

— The Day of the Beast • Zane Grey

... the reader will observe that the first-class criminal lawyer by no means devotes his time to defending mere burglars and "strong-arm" men. The elite of the profession do as gilt-edged an office practice as the most dignified corporation attorneys. Indeed, in many respects their work ...

— The Confessions of Artemas Quibble • Arthur Train