Tough may refer to:
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Toughness, the resistance to fracture of a material when stressed
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Machismo, prominently exhibited or excessive masculinity
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Psychological resilience
Tough may also refer to:
People
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Allen Tough
Allen Tough (January 6, 1936 – 27 April, 2012) was a Canadian educator and researcher. Widely known as a futurist, scientist, and author, Tough was Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto at the time of his death. He made major contri ...
(1936–2012), Canadian academic
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Dave Tough (1907–1948), jazz drummer
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The Krankies, Ian and Janette Tough
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Kathy Tough
Kathy Tough (born February 22, 1969 in Calgary, Alberta) is a retired volleyball Player (game), player from Canada, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she ended up in tenth place with the Cana ...
(born 1969), Canadian volleyball player
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Kelly Tough
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Karen Elaina Price (born July 17, 1960) is an American model, stun ...
(b. 1967), Canadian model and actress
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Paul Tough (born 1967), Canadian writer
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Jim Barry
Jim "Tough" Barry (26 July 1893 – 17 October 1968) was an Irish people, Irish hurling and Gaelic football, football Manager (Gaelic games), trainer. In a career that lasted for forty years from 1926 until 1966 he trained the Cork county hurling ...
(c. 1891–1967), aka Tough Barry, Cork hurling coach
Music
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''Tough'' (John Mayall album), 2009
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''Tough'' (Kurtis Blow album), 1982
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''Tough'' (Wishbone Ash album), 2008
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Tough!'', 1966 album by Art Blakey
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"Tough" (Craig Morgan song), 2007
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"Tough" (Kellie Pickler song), 2011
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"Tough" (Lewis Capaldi song), 2018
* "Tough", 1960 single by
The Bill Smith Combo
Other
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''Tough'' (film)
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Kirkton of Tough, settlement in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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''Tough'' (manga)
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The Tough'', 1957 Egyptian film
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T-ough Press, underground Russian publisher
See also
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Tuff
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Tough movement
In formal syntax, ''tough'' movement refers to sentences in which the syntactic subject of the main verb is logically the object of an embedded non-finite verb. Because the object of the lower verb is absent, such sentences are also sometimes c ...
, in formal syntax, movement of the object in construction like "the problem is tough to solve"
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