A quarrelsome person; one given to brawling and riot; a rowdy. Obsolete.

A brawler, a bravo, a bully.

A person who raises an outcry; a person who complains or protests.

One who makes or commits a breach.

Originally and chiefly U.S. A backwoodsman of a rough and lawless type; (hence) a rough, disorderly person; one disposed to quarrelling…

A rough or rowdy person; a troublemaker; a bully.

A person with rough manners; an uncultivated or uneducated person; (also) a quarrelsome troublemaker, a rowdy. Also figurative.

A person (typically a youth or a man) who is disreputable, disorderly, violent, or rowdy.

U.S. History. Chiefly with capital initial(s). Usually in plural. A member of a street gang based in Baltimore, Maryland, whose members made violent…