strongman

Noun

Meaning

Someone who performs feats of strength, sometimes in competitions or in a circus.

A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.

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Examples

All it needs to do is keep some of these exports for itself and be led by a strongman. Source: Internet

All Hallows churchyard conjures up memories of Johnny Eagle, a Romany strongman and magician dad used to take me to see. Source: Internet

According to journalist and former McLaren employee Phil Strongman, around this time the band adopted the name QT Jones and the Sex Pistols (or QT Jones & His Sex Pistols, as one Rhodes-designed T-shirt put it). Source: Internet

Another favored regional (among Ankara’s ) and Western media trope these days is Erdogan’s angle – the idea that the strongman seeks a rebirth of the old empire: to make Turkey great again! Source: Internet

Ahmet Dumanli/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(CAIRO) — Egypt’s former strongman Hosni Mubarak, who was toppled by a popular revolt in 2011, has died at the age of 91, the country’s state TV said on Tuesday. Source: Internet

Awami League premier Sheikh Mujibur Rahman became the country's strongman and implemented many socialist policies. Source: Internet

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