Adjective
1. tough
2. hard-bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious, tough-minded, unsentimental, hard, insensitive, rugged
3. difficult, hard, tough
4. toughened, calloused, thickened, enured, inured, hardened, weather-beaten, experienced, rugged, strong, sturdy
5. rugged, ruffianly
6. violent, bad
7. uncomfortable, tough
8. cartilaginous, gristly, rubbery, chewy, coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery, fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable, hempen, fibrous, inedible, uneatable, hard
Noun
1. bad, street fighter
2. combatant, battler, belligerent, fighter, scrapper, hood
3. hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, toughie, strong-armer, criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor, bully
4. hooligan, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo, attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
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