单词 | street tough |
释义 | > as lemmasstreet tough street tough adj. (a) n. a thuggish or aggressive person from an urban environment; (b) adj. toughened by modern urban life; streetwise. ΚΠ 1890 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Daily Tribune 13 Feb. 2/1 They may endorse the sentiment, but none save the bar room bum and street tough would endorse the language used. 1964 Brit. Jrnl. Sociol. 15 114 [It] included a number of disgruntled former supporters..and a good number of professional street toughs. 1972 P. Weissman Lords of Power i. 12 She was born street tough. 2004 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 19 Nov. c5/2 No longer the street tough who once threatened cop killings on ‘Deep Cover’, he's more the blue-collar uncle. 2007 Ottawa Sun (Nexis) 15 Jan. 22 When she becomes pregnant her father throws her out of the house and she's forced to move in with..her gay street-tough cousin. < as lemmas |
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