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toughie

[ UK /tˈʌfi/ ]
[ US /ˈtəfi/ ]
NOUN
  1. an aggressive and violent young criminal
  2. a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

How To Use toughie In A Sentence

  • Last night Darren, Drew and I went to the Retro Bar pop quiz. £97 was up for grabs so the quiz was a toughie.
  • Here's a toughie: yep, I'm on the rebound from a decent relationship with a decent guy who just wasn't ready to be responsible to a committed relationship.
  • It's a toughie this one, but there's a strategically placed bench half way up!
  • A rough, violent person who engages in destructive actions: mug, roughneck , rowdy, ruffian, tough. Informal toughie. Slang hood, punk.
  • Flash forward to their senior year: Lucy is a brainiac virgin; Kit is an engaged, self centered snob; and Mimi is a trailer trash talking toughie who had the unfortunate luck of getting pregnant.
  • But I think if I were a man, I'd be a real toughie, a kind of a gruff - I'd be a man's man.
  • Monkeys who want to rule the world will be slapped down by these troublesome toughies called Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.
  • All that was missing from the scene were a couple of pin-striped toughies carrying violin cases.
  • But Bogart's iconic image as the toughie was something he could rarely escape, even off screen.
  • When she was still in her early teens, this man who was a toughie, jumped on to the stage after her dance, brandishing a knife, and told her, ‘You have to be mine.’
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