📚 noun • entry_id 29110
strongman
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fortachón • forzolento • forzudo
A man who performs feats of strength, as in competitions or as an attraction in a circus.
Giovanni Battista Belzoni, the famous Egyptian archeologist, who was a man of gigantic stature, began his public career as a strongman at the Bartholomew Fair, under the management…
Opposite him was the Fat Lady, red-faced and laughing. Beside her, the India-rubber Man wound spaghetti on to a fork with an expression of deepest melancholy. Further down the tabl…
hombre fuerte
A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.
Since the Cold War’s end, a staggering 70 percent of governments headed by strongmen collapsed after the ruler departed, according to one data set.
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