bulvan

plural bulvans

1. slangA brute.

   Johnson there is old, but he is built like a bulvan! Under the boards, who would fight with him?

   1966, Jay Neugeboren, Big Man, page 56

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   It wasn't too late to get away, he could twist clear of the door or fall down in the gutter where he was, even a bulvan like Biggy—it was Biggy he saw over his shoulder—wouldn't shoot him in the street, not in Carbonport.

   2010, Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule