"First Blood" tough guy Crossword Clue

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TOUGH (adjective)
1. making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe
2. very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution
TOUGH (noun)
1. someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing
2. an aggressive and violent young criminal
BLOOD (noun)
1. a dissolute man in fashionable society
2. the descendants of one individual
BLOOD (verb)
1. smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

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