toughs

noun

a cruel and brutal fellow

an aggressive and violent young criminal

someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

adjective

making great mental demands

unfortunate or hard to bear

resistant to cutting or chewing

feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

violent and lawless

substantially made or constructed

physically toughened

very difficult

not given to gentleness or sentimentality

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