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What do you call a guy who is the best fighter in the school. Those kinds of people often bully others and other students are afraid of facing him. Is there any slang for it?

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What do you call a guy who is the best fighter in the school. Those kinds of people often bully others and other students are afraid of facing him. Is there any slang for it?

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I would not necessarily equate the person who is the best fighter in the school with being a bully who people are afraid of. The best fighter in school might be a perfectly nice young man who goes on to become a world-class boxer.

The kind of person at a school who threatens to beat other students up ("to beat up" is the phrasal verb to look up in a dictionary here) is usually just known as a bully. There are other ways of bullying students but being violent is one of them.

Personally, my word for such a person is "coward" but that is not the kind of term generally used within schools (or workplaces) for a bully.
 

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Why not just "school bully"? That is generally understood.
 

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Or "the biggest bully at school".
 

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Wow, there's a phrase I've never heard before. Mind you, I don't tend to hang around with people who use a lot of the language you find in the Urban Dictionary.

You should have come to my primary school in Lancashire in the 40s, ems. It was already well-established back then.

Here it is in a much more respectable publication:

cock of the walk

someone who dominates others within a group:

don’t ever forget he’s cock of the walk here
(COED)

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You should have come to my primary school in Lancashire in the 40s, ems.

If I ever get a Tardis, I'll drop by! I'm afraid that by the time I went to school, calling someone a "cock" of any description had nothing to do with poultry.
 
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