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NOUN
  1. a second-rate prize fighter

How To Use palooka In A Sentence

  • For all you one-way ticket holders remaining on board, to quote Marlon Brando in "On The Waterfront," next stop: "Palookaville"! Magic-city-news.com
  • It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, which came out in 1996 having originally been published in Seth's comic series, Palookaville, follows the artist's search for an obscure (fictional) cartoonist named Kalo; Wimbledon Green (2005) tells the story of "the world's greatest comic book collector". George Sprott by Seth
  • That said, even Palookaville, which wasn't near the minimum, is becoming a book series. Is the ship sinking? A short chat with Peggy Burns | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • This is the guy that Federal should have signed up instead of the wrestling palooka. A Shooting Lesson from Quarterback Joe Flacco
  • Their political game plan for the economy is what Terry in On the Waterfront might have called "a one-way ticket to Palookaville. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Geithner and The White House Are Making the Wrong Case
  • The other type of palooka is more difficult to recognize, but more valuable - the stooge.
  • The 20-something Reeve who shot to fame in the first Superman movie was an attractive man - much handsomer than the block-jawed palooka of the original comic books.
  • Like the palooka who pulls himself up off the canvas after each knockdown, the dedicated employee is expected never to waver, no matter what battering he takes.
  • I saw the big Irish palooka come out and head toward his car. Dancing with the Devil
  • Tyson was the palooka in his last fight, knocked out by Danny Williams in the fourth round last July 30.
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