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[zzang418lee]

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?

Thanks.

 

[emsr2d2]

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?

Thanks.

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.

 

[Rover_KE]

He's the cock of the school.

Rover

 

[emsr2d2]

He's the cock of the school.

Rover

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.

 

[Raymott]

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

 

[emsr2d2]

Or "the biggest bully at school".

 

[Rover_KE]

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)

Rover

 

[Tdol]

Top dog

 

[emsr2d2]

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.