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Get Tough

Definition: Get Tough

Get Tough

Verb

1. Get serious about enforcing a rule; "We have to clamp down and get tough on the dissidents".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonym: Get Tough

Synonym: clamp down (v). (additional references)

Crosswords: Get Tough

English words defined with "get tough": clamp down. (references)

Specialty definitions using "get tough": field circus. (references)

Modern Usage: Get Tough

Domain	Usage
Lyrics	I knew you'd have to get tough or die (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) Oh when things get tough (Spies Like Us; performing artist: Paul McCartney)
Movie/TV Titles	Let's Get Tough! (1942)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Get Tough

Domain	Title
Books	Get Tough (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Get Tough

Language		Translations for "get tough"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Turkmen		dazarylmak (come down on, get tough with). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Get Tough

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-g-g-h-o-t-t-u"
	-2 letters: ghetto, hogget.
	-3 letters: gouge, ought, teugh, togue, tough.
	-4 letters: gout, hogg, huge, teth, thou, thug, tote, tout.
	-5 letters: egg, ego, eth, get, got, gut, het, hoe, hog, hot, hue, hug, hut, out, teg, tet, the, tho, toe, tog, tot, tug, tut, ugh.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Get Tough

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 65 74 54 6F 75 67 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100101 01110100 00100000 01010100 01101111 01110101 01100111 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#101 &#116 &#32 &#84 &#111 &#117 &#103 &#104

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0065 0074 0054 006F 0075 0067 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

41718625481877374

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern

5. Usage: Commercial
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography

9. Bibliography

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