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  1. a second-rate prize fighter

How To Use palooka In A Sentence

  • The best stories are usually when his bulldog, Mike, also plays a part, as the big dumb palooka gets into trouble with his loyal powerhouse furry friend. Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Waterfront Fists and Others - Robert E. Howard
  • From writer-director, Alan Taylor (The Sopranos, Mad Men, Palookaville), this show sounds better and better with each announcement. Zach Galifianakis to Star in Todd Phillips’s The Hangover, HBO’s Bored to Death | /Film
  • And then there was a big, brawling, pockmarked palooka with tight curly hair and a big gut whose huge, ham-hock hands relentlessly pounded his victims into total, abject submission.
  • Unless they're all palookas from the South Side, the writers come from leafy suburbs; and that loading zone behind the shopping center is not an alley.
  • Should the two palookas with the hardware be in cahoots or feeling underpaid, they would have loved to learn of the $11,000 in traveller's checks, $1, 000 camera, credit card, and Canadian passport I was packing.
  • He was on a book signing tour in Palookaville and people drove for miles to line the roads of his transportation route to heckle and ridicule that joke. Santorum Eyeing A 2010 Comeback For Governor
  • Will words about peace, love and brotherhood, and also of course about paying your tithe to the church on a regular basis, make any difference to a bunch of steroid-crazed palookas (if this is indeed what they are)?
  • It's not that Buchanan doesn't make any good points; in any melee, any palooka with a wild swing is bound to land a punch or two.
  • “Better than hitting some poor old palooka in the head,” Ruth replied. DIAMOND RUBY
  • And the lineup of bouts after healthcare isn't exactly the last bus from Palookaville either: Afghanistan, the employment crisis, a looming flu epidemic, market regulation. Tom Watson: Late Rounds on Healthcare: Can Obama Throw a Counter-Punch?
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