battler

noun

Definition of battlernext
as in scrapper

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  1. scrapper
  2. fighter
  3. hustler
Noun
  • That scrapper, his out-of-season t-shirt, the playground and the flashed Playboy...
    Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Every Volunteers outing has been a blowout, save for their one-point scrapper over Illinois.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, The Athletic, 4 Jan. 2025
Definition of scrapper
Noun
  • As Palisades Fire Expands East Apple Brings Back iPhone 15 Pro For First Time—At Lower Price The fighters involved on the card probably wouldn’t have been too inconvenienced by the move.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The package includes various missiles for air defense, air-to-ground munitions, support equipment for F-16 fighter jets, armored bridging systems, small arms and ammunition, spare parts and additional communications equipment.
    Filip Timotija, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of fighter
Noun
  • In the nineteen-nineties, a half-dozen or so hustlers emerged from the rubble of the old system to exploit their proximity to Boris Yeltsin and his family to snatch up invaluable state properties––oil fields, mines, television stations––at knockoff prices.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2025
  • Melvin Combs, a small-time hustler, was introduced to selling heroin when Lucas fronted him several kilos from his Golden Triangle connection.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 16 Nov. 2024
Definition of hustler
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