Definition of tough cookie

tough cookie

noun

• a tough person.

  Last edited on Aug 31 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'cookie':
bake cookies	Definitions include: to have sexual relations with someone.
chuck (one's) cookies	Definitions include: to vomit.
cookie	Definitions include: a cigarette.
cookie box	Definitions include: vagina.
cookies and milk	Definitions include: When the basketball slips out of your Han when you are about to shoot the ball, known as cookies
cum cookie	Definitions include: a game played by a group of males who ejaculate ("cum") onto a cookie.
cut a cookie	Definitions include: to do a U turn or turn around while driving.
get (one's) hand stuck in the cookie jar	Definitions include: get caught doing something one shouldn't
lung cookie	Definitions include: one whom smokes cigarettes.
smart cookie	Definitions include: an intelligent person.
toss cookies	Definitions include: to vomit.
toss (one's) cookies	Definitions include: to vomit
want a cookie	Definitions include: to be in need of praise.
woof (one's) cookies	Definitions include: to vomit.
Other terms relating to 'tough':
tough	Definitions include: n. 1. A congratulatory remark relating to an act, object or event.
tough guy	Definitions include: egotistical, way too cool.
tough sh*t	Definitions include: uncaring retort.
tough titty	Definitions include: an uncaring retort.
TS	Definitions include: acronym for "tough shit".

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