- a person who fights angrily, noisily, and roughly, often under the influence of alcohol: He was a scrapper and brawler, a drunk and a bully, often hauled before the justices for punching someone.
- a contentious or argumentative person: No doubt about it—this congressman is a brawler, but it appears he’s all bark and no bite.
- a practitioner of a style of boxing characterized by very powerful punches with little variety of technique or skilled footwork: Most brawlers tend to walk into range with no jabs or setups and very little head movement.
- any computer game of a genre that features hand-to-hand combat, often focused on a hero who is greatly outnumbered: Join your favorite anime heroes for an epic fight to the finish in this old-school brawler.
