knuckle-draggers
Dim, brutish types
Knuckle-draggers is a derogatory term for people considered brutish, stupid, or primitive—the image being of apes whose knuckles drag on the ground as they walk.
The insult suggests someone hasn't evolved much: The knuckle-draggers in accounting rejected our proposal.
Often applied to those seen as thuggish or intellectually backward.
Crudely ill-mannered
- loutishCrude and ill-mannered
- uncouthLacking good manners
- brutishCruel and uncivilized
- oafishStupidly clumsy
troglodyte · buffoon · ignoramus · lummox · philistine · yokel · cloddish · thuggish
Violent criminals
- enforcersThose who impose obedience
- goonsHired intimidators
- henchmenLoyal subordinates to wrongdoers
- bouncersVenue security personnel
bullies · heavies · muscle · bruisers · toughs · strongarms · hired muscle · menacing
Human-like primate family
- NeanderthalExtinct archaic human species
- AustralopithecusExtinct hominin genus
- bipedalismWalking on two limbs
- Homo erectusExtinct bipedal human ancestor
Lucy · fossils · Paleolithic · anthropology · Pleistocene · prehistoric · Leakey · archaeology
Muscular power, bodily might
- muscleContractile body tissue
- powerliftingMaximal barbell competition sport
- strongmanPowerful lifter or despot
- bodybuildingMuscle enlargement for appearance
physicality · toughness · brute force · meatheads · gym rats · jocks · beefcake · hulking
boorish
Crudely ill-mannered
oafish · troglodyte · buffoon · ignoramus · lummox · philistine · yokel · cloddish · thuggish · gormless
thugs
Violent criminals
bouncers · bullies · heavies · muscle · bruisers · toughs · strongarms · hired muscle · menacing · threatening
hominids
Human-like primate family
- NeanderthalExtinct archaic human species
- AustralopithecusExtinct hominin genus
- bipedalismWalking on two limbs
Homo erectus · Lucy · fossils · Paleolithic · anthropology · Pleistocene · prehistoric · Leakey · archaeology · primates
brawn
Muscular power, bodily might
- muscleContractile body tissue
- powerliftingMaximal barbell competition sport
- strongmanPowerful lifter or despot
bodybuilding · physicality · toughness · brute force · meatheads · gym rats · jocks · beefcake · hulking · brawny
knuckle-draggersintellectuals
People of scholarly pursuits
geniuses · scholars · eggheads · brainiacs · intelligentsia
knuckle-draggerssophisticates
Worldly, cultured individuals
aesthetes · connoisseurs · highbrows · patricians · aristocrats
knuckle, dragger, drag, knuckles, knuckled, knuckling, dragged, dragging, drags