(n.) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
(n.) A boaster; a bully.
(n.) A bold lie; also, a liar.
(n.) Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Imran Yousuf, 24, a bouncer and former marine who served in Afghanistan, saw people pouring into the back hallway.
(2) Prasad, meanwhile, inserts a bouncer, and the over closes with the pleasing reappearance of the verbal.
(3) "S exual harassment is endemic," says Sophie Tolley, who until last month worked at student club nights around Edinburgh as a bouncer.
(4) A young man holds his hands aloft in victory as he is frog-marched out the door by bouncers.
(5) It is a figurehead maybe, although one that is less svelte mermaid than bullying bouncer.
(6) Then, following more mouth, another short one crumps the handle - they run two - before torso is offered to bouncer, it takes back and earns four.
(7) I would like to say thank you very much to the bouncers outside Turtle Bay,” she said.
(8) Next to Laura’s elegant effort, he looks like a steroidal bouncer who’d kick you off a glacier.
(9) A door guarded by bald, unsmiling men, the bouncers who stand forever as the bored sentinels of indifferent celebrity.
(10) Both teams left the pitch with a pile of grievances and the lingering image is of the referee, Jon Moss, being escorted off the pitch at the final whistle by a man wearing the look of a nightclub bouncer.
(11) The former bouncer Levi Bellfield has lost a bid to challenge his conviction for the kidnap and murder of Milly Dowler .
(12) Maybe a sling or a bouncer if you're feeling flush – and, of course, bottles and sterilisers if you're bottle feeding.
(13) There are a few things about his death that everyone agrees on: he was in a hilltop park eating a burrito and tortilla chips, wearing the Taser he carried for his job as a bouncer at a nightclub, when someone called 911 on him a little after 7pm on the evening of 21 March 2014.
(14) Bennett’s route into teaching encompassed six years running nightclubs in Soho, including a popular club on Wardour Street – sparking headlines that the government’s new behaviour tsar was a former bouncer.
(15) Molina hits a bouncer, Pedroia wisely just gets the out at first.
(16) A snazzy looking nightclub with bouncers who won’t let you in.
(17) The 78-year-old, a former bouncer who reportedly had three girlfriends before becoming a priest, described the family as “a factory of hope”, each one with “divine citizenship”.
(18) He used Unity Force as on-stage bouncers, renaming them Security of the First World, or S1Ws.
(19) Puig caps an 0-4 night with a bouncer to Kozma at shortstop who fires to second base, to take Gordon off the base paths.
(20) One of the earliest posts told the story of a young Asian woman who had run away from home only to find herself pursued by a posse of ex-rugby league players and bouncers hired by her father.
Bully
Definition:
(n.) A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
(n.) A brisk, dashing fellow.
(a.) Jovial and blustering; dashing.
(a.) Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
(v. t.) To intimidate with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully toward.
(v. i.) To act as a bully.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(3) It would still need to work with government funded national anti-doping organisations where they exist (though even those considered an example to others, such as UK Anti Doping, are facing swingeing cuts) and bully as well as cajole sports into testing properly with rigour and independence.
(4) "For so long, management kept us down; they've broken us and bullied us," he said.
(5) One hundred days from Rio, Britain’s national cycling team has been thrown into chaos following the sudden resignation of its head, technical director Shane Sutton , as allegations of bullying and discrimination against women and Paralympians accumulated on Wednesday.
(6) Once I’d checked she was OK I said, ‘Stop crying now.’ ” So it’s about managing emotions: ‘I’m going to need you to get a grip.’” “If you’ve got interesting points to make about the devaluing of serious words like bullying and depression, why make them in a way that sounds like you’re ridiculing people who are suffering?” I ask.
(7) How, we might ask, can homophobic bullying be tackled when implicitly sanctioned by the school’s own literature?
(8) But 30 minutes before takeoff on our private jet – like a top-end Lexus limo with wings – actress Rosamund Pike has heroically stepped in for the year's hot meal ticket: an El Bulli supper, pitch perfect for a selection of rare champagne, devised by Adrià with Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon's effervescent chef de cave.
(9) This is the latest rejection for an irrational bully whose brand is increasingly toxic.” Referring to earlier controversial comments made on the US campaign trail, Salmond also said of Trump: His behaviour and comments are unlikely to attract the votes of many Mexican Americans or Muslim Americans.
(10) "If I thought he was a bully or if I thought he was homophobic then I would take him off," Cooper told MediaGuardian's Radio Reborn conference in central London.
(11) Dean, who started working at the flagship A&F store on 11 June last year, told the tribunal: "I had been bullied out of my job.
(12) Extensive research among the Afghan National Army – 68 focus groups – and US military personnel alike concluded: "One group sees the other as a bunch of violent, reckless, intrusive, arrogant, self-serving profane, infidel bullies hiding behind high technology; and the other group [the US soldiers] generally views the former as a bunch of cowardly, incompetent, obtuse, thieving, complacent, lazy, pot-smoking, treacherous, and murderous radicals.
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(14) In 2007 a fresh-faced MP spent two days at the home of a Muslim family in Birmingham and then wrote boldly of how it wasn’t possible to “bully people into feeling British: we have to inspire them”; “you can’t even start to talk about a truly integrated society while people are suffering racist … abuse … on a daily basis”.
(15) "We should oppose the practices of the big bullying the small, the strong domineering over the weak and the rich oppressing the poor."
(16) Someone, somewhere, must stand up to the bullying, hectoring hypocrisy of Cameron's "localism" act and his henchman, Pickles, in full "screw democracy" mode.
(17) The report detailed several instances of bullying by pupils.
(18) The assessment of bullying in schools comes after police figures indicated that young people were the victims of 10% of faith hate crime and 8% of race hate crime between 16 June and 7 July.
(19) Earlier Alexander, the most senior Scottish MP in the UK cabinet, rejected claims that ministers in London were bullying Scotland into rejecting independence.
(20) Work on The Maze Runner came about, he says, because his director watched Son of Rambow “and knew I had some bully-ish qualities in my acting locker”.