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- noun Alternative spelling of
leg-breaker .
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Examples
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McCallany plays Patrick “Lights” McCleary, an aging former heavyweight boxer who becomes a gambling debt collecting “legbreaker” in order to support his wife (McCormack) and three daughters.
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One low-rent legbreaker, the other a wealthy scion.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Imago Sequence - Laird Barron Blue Tyson 2010
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Called "Lights Out," it will be about a former heavyweight boxing champion Holt McCallany who suffers from pugilistic dementia and is forced to take a job as a mob legbreaker to support his wife and three daughters.
Archive 2009-04-01 Reel Fanatic 2009
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Rocky Balboa is a loser, a legbreaker for a minor Philadelphia gangster.
Archive 2006-07-01 DAVID BISHOP 2006
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A convicted drug dealer, he is the author of a maim-and-tell memoir about his years as a legbreaker for South Boston gangland leader Whitey Bulger.
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A convicted drug dealer, he is the author of a maim-and-tell memoir about his years as a legbreaker for South Boston gangland leader Whitey Bulger.
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That leads him to take a job as a legbreaker, collecting on unpaid gambling debts.
unknown title 2009
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They ran their alleged criminal enterprise "like it was IBM or General Electric," but when Boston team stats] Hall of Famer Gerry Cheevers welshed on a shark's loan, prosecutors say the mob sent a legbreaker to settle the score.
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