strong-armadjective
uk/ˈstrɒŋ.aːm/us/ˈstrɑːŋ.ɑːrm/disapprovinga strong-arm tactic/method
a method or a type of behaviour that involves using force and threats to make people do what you want:
Police resorted to strong-arm tactics to break up the protest.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Violent or aggressive
- aggressive
- aggro
- all hell breaks loose idiom
- atrocious
- atrocity
- confrontation
- desperate
- flex your muscles idiom
- forced
- forcible
- frenzied
- gay-basher
- hostile
- running with blood idiom
- sabre-rattling
- savage
- savagely
- savagery
- steep
- steeped in blood idiom
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strong-armverb [ T ]
disapprovingto use force and threats to make people do what you want:
We never strong-armed anybody. I told people about the website and they could take it or leave it.