adjective
Internet Slang
tuff
· adjective · gen-z
Cool, sick, impressive — a respelling of 'tough' used as pure praise.
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Definitions
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A compliment for something that looks hard, clean, or impressive — most often an outfit, a car, a sneaker, a beat, a haircut. Visually and aesthetically coded; not used for, say, a kind gesture.
“Those new Jordans are tuff, where'd you cop them?”
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Of a situation: rough, painful, brutal — the original sense of 'tough' kept alive in slang spelling. Often a sympathetic single-word reply.
“He got dumped the day before his birthday. tuff.”
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tuff In A Sentence
Those new Jordans are tuff, where'd you cop them?
He got dumped the day before his birthday. tuff.
Origin & Usage
Long-standing AAVE / hip-hop usage of 'tough' to mean excellent (think 1980s 'that's tough') — the 'tuff' respelling locks in the slang meaning and dominates Gen-Z text and captions in the 2020s.
Variants
tough
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