Usually means: Use force or intimidation coercively.
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  1. strong-arm: Merriam-Webster
  2. strong-arm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. strong-arm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. strong-arm, strong-arm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. strong-arm: Vocabulary.com
  6. Strong-Arm, Strong-arm, strong-arm: Wordnik
  7. strong-arm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. strong-arm: Wiktionary
  9. strong-arm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. strong-arm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. strong-arm: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. strong-arm: Dictionary.com
  13. strong-arm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. strong-arm: Rhymezone
  15. strong-arm: FreeDictionary.org
  16. strong-arm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. strong-arm: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strong-arm: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strong-arm, strong-arm: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See strong-armed as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Bullying; extortionate.
adjective:  (usually figuratively) Coercive, employing force.
verb:  To bully; to intimidate.
verb:  (often figuratively) To coerce, to muscle.
noun:  A person who threatens or intimidates others, especially on behalf of somebody else; a goon or enforcer.

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