Definitions for toughs

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toughs tough

Spelling: [tuhf]

IPA: /tʌf/

Toughs is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 98 anagrams from letters in toughs (ghostu).

Definitions for toughs

noun

1. a ruffian; rowdy.

Idioms

1. hang tough, Slang. hang (def 56).
2. tough it out, Informal. to endure or resist hardship or adversity.

adverb

1. in a tough manner.

adjective

1. strong and durable; not easily broken or cut.
2. not brittle or tender.
3. difficult to masticate, as food:
4. of viscous consistency, as liquid or semiliquid matter:
5. capable of great endurance; sturdy; hardy:
6. not easily influenced, as a person; unyielding; stubborn:
7. hardened; incorrigible:
8. difficult to perform, accomplish, or deal with; hard, trying, or troublesome:
9. hard to bear or endure (often used ironically):
10. vigorous; severe; violent:
11. vicious; rough; rowdyish:
12. practical, realistic, and lacking in sentimentality; tough-minded.
13. Slang. remarkably excellent; first-rate; great.

Origin of toughs

before 900; Middle English (adj.); Old English tōh; compare Dutch taai, German zäh(e)

Examples for toughs

Why, he wondered, didn't the Masters make the toughs sweep their own barracks?

With the coup enacted, though, the response even among the toughs, at Rabaa at least, seemed one of apprehension.

Street battles between rival gangs of toughs are now reportedly raging in cities around the country.

But you've brought in a bunch of toughs and gunmen to overawe us and do your dirty work.

You say my paper isn't fit for aught but toughs and muckers?

Shadow appeared at the recess to report to them that the toughs had passed on.

But, even so, the Kid had proved that my theories about toughs were not rot.

That's a lesson the 'toughs' in these parts won't forget for a long time.

toughs as they were, these two men fully appreciated the company they were in.

We might even turn the toughs loose on them, without weapons.