strongman

See also: strong man

English

Etymology

strong +‎ -man

Noun

strongman (plural strongmen)

1. Someone who performs feats of strength, sometimes in competitions or in a circus.
   • 1920, Harry Houdini, chapter 11, in Miracle Mongers and Their Methods‎^[1]:

     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 of Gyngell, the conjuror, who dubbed him The Young Hercules.

2. A forceful or brutal person, usually a ruler or tyrant.
   • 2022 January 7, Max Fisher, “Behind Kazakhstan Unrest, the ‘Strongman’s Dilemma’”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.

Derived terms

• strongman game

 

Translations

one who performs feats of strength

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 大力士 (zh) (dàlìshì)

• Danish: kraftkarl c
• Finnish: voimamies (fi)
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• German: Muskelmann (de) m, Kraftmensch m
• Greek: μασίστας (el) m (masístas)
• Hungarian: erőművész (hu)
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• Polish: siłacz (pl) m, siłaczka (pl) f
• Russian: сила́ч (ru) m (siláč)
• Serbo-Croatian: jakota (sh) m
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forceful or brutal person

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  Mandarin: 強人／强人 (zh) (qiángrén)

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• German: Gewaltherrscher (de) m, Tyrann (de) m, Despot (de) m, Diktator (de) m
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• Hungarian: erőskezű vezető, hatalmával visszaélő vezető, diktátor (hu)
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• Polish: mocarz (pl) m
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• Spanish: hombre fuerte m
• Swedish: starke man c (literally "strong man" and idiomatically always in the definite, as for example "<place>s starke man" (the strongman of <place>) or "deras starke man" (their strongman))
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See also

• strongwoman