Stallonesque

Stallonesque

English

Etymology

Stallone +‎ -esque

Adjective

Stallonesque (not comparable)

1. in the style of Sylvester Stallone, an American actor.
   • 2012, Tom Holt, Djinn Rummy, Orbit (→ISBN)

     Fourteen years old, dressed from head to toe in camouflage gear, with a Stallonesque headband and pimples.

   • 1989, Jack Trumpboru, How Harvard Rules: Reason in the Service of Empire, South End Press (→ISBN), page 112:

     When his car was surrounded by Harvard students opposed to the war in 1967, Secretary of Defense McNamara stood on the hood and with Stallonesque élan screamed, "I was tougher than you are then

   • 1995, James Pallot, The Movie Guide, Perigee Books

     When he's not killing bad guys or rescuing his girlfriend, Jessie (Janine Turner), Walker gets to deliver some dialogue that is as spectacular, in its own Stallonesque way, as the scenery.