street fighter

1. 1.

   a contestant who is very aggressive and willing to use underhand methods

   Broaderrival
2. 2.

   someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

   Synonymstough

   Broadercombatant

Questions about street fighter

What does street fighter mean?

street fighter means "a contestant who is very aggressive and willing to use underhand methods". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for street fighter?

Close synonyms include tough. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is street fighter a common word?

street fighter is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.