Citations:Bluto

English citations of Bluto

A man who is large and muscular in top-heavy proportions, often combined with a comically brutish and aggressive personality.

• 1986, Lee K. Abbott, Strangers in paradise, page 38:

  He was built like Bluto. "Who the hell are you?" he said.

• 2007, Michael H. Price, George Eugene Turner, The Cruel Plains, page 88:

  A known deserter who had proved too elusive and tough for the military to recapture or drive away, King served the town as its resident bully — a Bluto to Masterson's Popeye, with Molly Brennan as an ultimately tragic Olive Oyl.

• 2008, Bret Lott, Ancient Highway: A Novel, page 152:

  For whatever reason, it'd taken her a little while to get out of the cab when they first got here, and when Chuck introduced me — she stood a full foot shorter than him, a tiny woman next to this Bluto of a man, a knitted green afghan over her shoulders, a white blouse and blue jeans.

• 2008, Andrew Vachss, Mask Market, page 214:

  He flung open the door like a Bluto cartoon.

• 2010, Susan Wilson, One Good Dog, page 21:

  His pit bull parts thinned out his back end but gave him a Bluto disproportion in his front end.

• 2010, Matty Simmons, Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House, page 43:

  John Belushi was always going to be Bluto; the heavyset body, the grizzly beard, made him a perfect Bluto, as in the Popeye cartoons.

• 2011, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 70:

  Hollow surfboards were introduced to Australia in 1934 by Sydney's Frank Adler, a Bluto-like paddling champion who made his first board by carefully following the do-it-yourself instructions from an imported issue of Modern Mechanix.

• 2011, Shaun Attwood, Hard Time: Life with Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail, Chapter 25:

  It wasn't the black loudmouth I'd expected but a Bluto of a man almost filling the entire doorway.

• 2014, Les Moore, Leave Your Mark: A Memoir, page 245:

  I was a basket case mentally and then this Bluto look alike, starts ragging on me about punching tubes.

• 2015, Maryann Bouco, The Last Stand, Chapter 4:

  The customers sometimes called him Bluto. He earned the nickname by his tremendous build and great strength.