Definition of "tough guy" [tough guy]

• Someone who bullies weaker people (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "You could be a tough guy too if you had six gendarmes with guns drawn behind you."
• "It was he who introduced Sara to Richie Malfitano, a handsome tough guy who tried to sweep her off her feet with gifts and flowers and trips to Atlantic City and Las Vegas."
• "Moreover, his aide Charles Colson told him, it would soften his tough guy image and undercut support from the blue-collar constituency he had cultivated ever since his silent majority speech in 1969."