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