Definition of "brinksman" [brinksman]

• One who engages in brinksmanship. (noun)

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• "Had the Administration tried to work openly with Congress on a lot of these matters, rather than continually assert the rights of Executive Authority, we might not be in the state we are in, now, after this brinksman approach."
• "And even while the brinksman maintains his precarious balance on the uncharted and crumbling rim of an unfathomable abyss, his fellow-citizens see their treasures sinking into at least four engulfing craters, each much more capacious than Fort Knox."
• "He is a brinksman who doesn't know where the brink is, and his ego may well have become too grandiose for him to do this. ""