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enforcer|ɛnˈfɔəsə(r)|
[f. enforce v. + -er.]
1. One who enforces.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Forceur, a conqueror, an enforcer. 1649Selden Laws Eng. ii. i. (1739) 6 The Contrivers, Advisers and Enforcers. 1884H. H. Wilson Brit. India I. 234 A rigorous advocate and unrelenting enforcer of measures of public economy and retrenchment. 1855Grote Greece ii. xci. XII. 20 A paramount obligation of which he was the enforcer. 1885J. Rae in Contemp. Rev. June 902 Besides its function as enforcer of morality..the State has another office.
2. slang (orig. U.S.). One who enforces his will by violence and intimidation; a strong-arm man, esp. in an underworld gang.
1934Survey Graphic Oct. 480/2 December 19, 1932, Frank (‘The Enforcer’) Nitto, Capone's cousin and business manager of the Capone gang, was shot three times in the neck. 1951E. Kefauver Crime in Amer. x. 143 Dead beside him was his lieutenant and ‘enforcer’, Charlie Gargotta. 1972N.Y. Times 1 June 47/4 His subordinates include ‘enforcers’ or strong-arm men, and freelance ‘cutters’. 1976Reader's Digest Mar. 34 Every team employs swashbuckling..‘enforcers’... Dave ‘Hammer’ Schultz..excels at..ferocious attacks on opposing teams' stars. 1983Times 28 Apr. 3/6 An east London wholesaler was cleared at the Central Criminal Court yesterday of the gangland execution of an underworld ‘enforcer’.
▸ Sport (orig. Ice Hockey). A strong, aggressive, or intimidating player whose role is to protect teammates or dominate an area of the field of play.
1963Lincoln (Nebraska) Star 30 Nov. 12/3 Omaha defenseman Noel Picard, a burly 220 pound enforcer, boke [read broke] the jaw of Harry Sinden, player-coach of Minneapolis. 1990Times (Nexis) 8 July The youngster was sure to receive his come-uppance. He was standing still, dwelling on the ball, and Terry Fenwick, Tottenham's rugged enforcer, was coming up fast. 2000N.Y. Times 21 Aug. d5/4 With the Liberty trailing, 5-2, Johnson drove through the lane and drew a foul from Mery Andrade, the Rockers' enforcer. |