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Definition: Strong-arm |
Strong-armAdjective1. Impelled by physical force especially against resistance; "forcible entry"; "a real cop would get physical"; "strong-arm tactics". Verb1. Handle roughly; "He was strong-armed by the policemen". 2. Be bossy towards; "Her big brother always bullied her when she was young". 3. Use physical force against; "They strong-armed me when I left the restaurant". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "strong-arm" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1916. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | StrongARM |
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Synonyms: Strong-armSynonyms: forcible (adj), physical (adj), ballyrag (v), boss around (v), browbeat (v), bully (v), bullyrag (v), hector (v), push around (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Thief | Spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier; piqueerer, pickeerer; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee, wrecker, picaroon; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Russia | Although the use of strong-arm tactics is not unknown in Russian commercial disputes, post is not aware of any cases where foreign investments have been attacked or damaged for political reasons. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mexico | Some unions were democratic, but corruption and strong-arm tactics were common in others. (references) |
Mexico | In a case involving freedom of association linked to the right to organize unions, in 1997 a total of 9 unions and 24 human rights NGO's jointly filed a submission with the U.S. NAO alleging that a CTM-affiliated union used strong-arm tactics to intimidate workers so that they would not vote in favor of a rival union to represent workers at a plant in Mexico state. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Strong-arm" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Strong-arm" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 14 | 93,893 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "strong-arm"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
French | gros bras (strong-arm man). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 腕ずく (force). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | うでずく (force). (various references) | ||||||||||
Korean | 힘이 세". (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ong-armstray dùng vũ lực. (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-g-m-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: angstrom, grantors. | |
-2 letters: amongst, garrons, grantor, marrons, matrons, morgans, mortars, transom. | |
-3 letters: argons, argots, armors, garron, gators, gnarrs, grants, groans, groats, magots, mangos, manors, marron, matron, mongst, morgan, mortar, orangs, organs, orgasm, ramson, ransom, romans, rostra, sarong, sartor, strang, stroma, strong, tangos, tomans, tongas, tronas. | |
-4 letters: agons, among, amort, angst, argon, argot, armor, arson. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-g-m-n-o-r-r-s-t" | |
+3 letters: barnstorming, ferromagnets, grandmothers, impregnators, overgarments, remigrations, transforming, transmogrify. | |
+4 letters: brainstorming, overmastering, remonstrating, transmigrator. | |
+5 letters: brainstormings, conglomerators, ferromagnetism, interferograms, retransforming, roentgenograms, steamrollering, transmigration, transmigrators, transmigratory, transmogrified, transmogrifies. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Bibliography |
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