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- noun A person who regularly
fights in thestreets
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Examples
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Somewhere in this thread, I called him (Carville) a "streetfighter" and I think that about sums it up.
In Contrast With Core Hillary Message, Carville Says He Thinks Obama "Will" Win General Election 2009
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Mill was then corrected by Judge Hegarty QC, who said that "streetfighter" should read "street striker".
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Mill was then corrected by Judge Hegarty QC, who said that "streetfighter" should read "street striker".
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Mill was then corrected by Judge Hegarty QC, who said that "streetfighter" should read "street striker".
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Mill was then corrected by Judge Hegarty QC, who said that "streetfighter" should read "street striker".
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Sri Lanka's captain Arjuna Ranatunga, the tubbiest streetfighter of them all, holds the 1996 World Cup trophy aloft.
The speech that set free Sri Lanka cricket and glued a troubled nation | David Hopps 2011
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It's a curious notion, yet one that makes sense for a business that still has the feel of a muscular young streetfighter looking to take on all comers – rather than that of a long-established and self-consciously cultured set-up like the BBC, whose Broadcasting House looks like an art deco ocean liner carved in stone.
James Murdoch's Sky scraper Jonathan Glancey 2010
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He did not live to see the tubbiest streetfighter of them all, Arjuna Ranatunga, lift the World Cup two years later, the event that pronounced Sri Lanka had truly arrived.
The speech that set free Sri Lanka cricket and glued a troubled nation | David Hopps 2011
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In response to her shameful ad hominem attacks, Logan herself was promptly assaulted in turn by the no-holds-barred streetfighter/attackdog Matt Taibbi.
Rory O'Connor: Independence Day and Independent Journalism 2010
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Looks like they are tryin to compete with the old streetfighter movie
Another Reason Why the GI Joe Movie Is Going To Suck | /Film 2008
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