eng: tough - UWN/MENTA

eng: tough

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Meaning
means	(noun) someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing tough, street fighter
means	(noun) an aggressive and violent young criminal hoodlum, toughie, strong-armer, tough, hood, thug, goon, punk
means	(noun) a cruel and brutal fellow yobbo, yob, roughneck, bully, hooligan, rowdy, tough, ruffian, yobo
means	(adjective) not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character" tough
means	(adjective) very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution; "a rugged competitive examination"; "the rugged conditions of frontier life"; "the competition was tough"; "it's a tough life"; "it was a tough job" rugged, tough
means	(adjective) physically toughened; "the tough bottoms of his feet" tough, toughened
means	(adjective) substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal" tough, sturdy
means	(adjective) violent and lawless; "the more ruffianly element"; "tough street gangs" tough, ruffianly
means	(adjective) feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad'); "my throat feels bad"; "she felt bad all over"; "he was feeling tough after a restless night" tough, bad
means	(adjective) resistant to cutting or chewing tough
means	(adjective) unfortunate or hard to bear; "had hard luck"; "a tough break" tough, hard
means	(adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home" baffling, problematic, problematical, knotty, elusive, tough

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