Brutal pair of boozers in charge (8)
I believe the answer is:
barbaric
'brutal' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'pair of boozers in charge' is the wordplay.
'pair' indicates the doubling of some letters.
'of boozers' becomes 'bar' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'in charge' becomes 'ic' (abbreviation for 'in charge').
'bar' duplicated is 'barbar'.
'barbar'+'ic'='BARBARIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for barbaric that I've seen before include "Uncivilized" , "Wild and savage" , "Rabbi car for rough and uncivilised" , "Brutal and uncivilised" , "Savage and cruel" .)