tough guy

“You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.

Not anything like a tough-guy novelist who works the street the way Updike works the suburbs.

We talked about suicide, all the time, but it was just tough-guy talk, normal weapons talk.

But, as pain followed the initial shock, the supposed tough guy called for his mother.

Michael “is a very tough guy and a real stoic,” his brother says.

One tough guy in the Sugar Creek territory was enough to keep us all on the lookout all the time for different kinds of trouble.

His mother called him Ernie and she alone, in all Chippewa, Wisconsin, was unaware that her son was the town tough guy.

One big chap had my hat cocked on his head at the “tough guy” angle as if he had worn one all his life.

And they seemed to look up to him and he was considered sort of a tough-guy type, although not as a bully.

Murder was in his heart, and the urge to break this tough guy Fenton with his bare hands.