Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bruiser

1 sense of bruiser

Sense 1
bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson -- (a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got")
       => man, adult male -- (an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus")