Usually means: Able to endure hardship, resilient.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. tough: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tough: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tough: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tough: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tough: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tough, tough: Wordnik
  7. tough: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tough: Wiktionary
  9. tough: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tough: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tough: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tough: Dictionary.com
  13. tough: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tough: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Tough, Tough (John Mayall album), Tough (Kellie Pickler song), Tough (Kurtis Blow album), Tough (Lewis Capaldi song), Tough (Wishbone Ash album), Tough (film), Tough (manga), Tough: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tough: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tough: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tough: Rhymezone
  19. tough: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tough: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Tough: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. tough: Free Dictionary
  23. tough: ESL Idiom Page
  24. tough: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tough: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. tough: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Wine Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tough: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tough: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TOUGH: Acronym Finder
  2. tough: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tough, tough, tough: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tough: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. tough: The Folk File
  4. tough: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wine Taster's Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
adjective:  (of food) Difficult to cut or chew.
adjective:  (of a person or animal) Rugged or physically hardy.
adjective:  (of a person) Stubborn or persistent; capable of stubbornness or persistence.
adjective:  (of weather, etc.) Harsh or severe.
adjective:  Rowdy or rough.
adjective:  (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.
adjective:  (material science) Undergoing plastic deformation before breaking.
adjective:  Strict, not lenient.
noun:  A person who obtains things by force; a thug or bully.
verb:  To endure.
verb:  To toughen.

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