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palooka::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | stumblebum |
| Type of | boxer, pugilist |
Examples of palooka
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Big-name strategists are sitting on the sidelines, worried about backing a palooka.
From the newsweek.com
Somehow they found a place for a hokey sculpture of Rocky Balboa, a fictional palooka.
From the stltoday.com
You know, this guy's a palooka in a ring with a lot of other palookas.
From the npr.org
When this iron palooka gets in the ring, however, he's a winner.
From the newsday.com
After all, it's easier to give the would-be palooka false hope than pay him $100 a day to spar.
From the ocregister.com
So UK could get another payday, plus a palooka to punch around.
From the kentucky.com
He's the anti-ingenue, a wised-up palooka with a surfer tan.
From the signonsandiego.com
Having been bounced out of the luxury-car ring like a flabby palooka, Ford's once-strong luxury division is hoping for a comeback.
From the businessweek.com
We were both there to watch the great Santa Ana boxer Ronny Rios demolish some palooka who had no business being in the same ring with him.
From the ocregister.com
- Stumblebum: a second-rate prize fighter
- Palooka is a 1934 comedy film directed by Benjamin Stoloff starring Jimmy Durante. It is based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher. The movie was adapted by Jack Jevne, Arthur Kober, Gertrude Purcell, Murray Roth and Ben Ryan from the comic strip. It was directed by Benjamin Stoloff.
- One-act plays by Tennessee Williams is a list of the one-act plays written by American playwright Tennessee Williams.
- (slang) a stupid, oafish or clumsy person; an incompetent untalented boxer, bridge player, etc
- Man, probably a little stupid
- A palooka is a tenth rater, a nobody, and a lousy boxer with no ability who usually loses his fights in four or six rounds to boxers who are just starting out in their careers. It's synonymous with tomato can or ham and egger. ...
- A weak, usually clueless player. A woodpusher. Also: fish.
- Term used to describe an aging, losing, or uncelebrated boxer.
- (1) a below-average or average boxer (2) a social outsider, from the comic strip character Joe Palooka
