tough guy

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tough guy definition

n.
a tough man; a man who might be part of the underworld. : He was your typical tough guy—jutting chin, gruff voice—but he was just our decorator checking up on the drapes. , So, you want to be a tough guy, huh?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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tough guy
noun
someone who bullies weaker people

WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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Tough guy is always a great word to know.

So is slumgullion. Does it mean:

a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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"...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive."

-Ellen Glasgow

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