had gone wrong. Let’s touch base on
Wednesday and check on things.touched 1. mod. flattered; honored. (Stan-
dard English.) I was touched by your
comments. We were both touched by
your thoughtfulness. 2. mod. alcohol in-
toxicated. She was acting a little
touched, but we didn’t smell anything on
her breath. Jed is a mite touched,
wouldn’t you say? Can’t talk, walk, or see.
touchy-feelymod.very sensitive and em-
pathetic; pretentiously compassionate.
Wow, these SNAGs are soooo touchy-feely.
Marge is so touchy-feely. She worries
that anything she says may possibly offend
someone.
tough breakn. a bit of bad luck. To u g h
break. Sorry about that. You’ve had a lot
of tough breaks lately.
tough cookien. a tough person. He’s
a tough cookie, but I can handle him.
There was a tough cookie in here
this morning who demanded to see the
manager.
tough cookiesGo to tough luck.
tough customern. someone who is diffi-
cult to deal with. Some of those bikers
are really tough customers. Bruno is a
tough customer. Just keep away from him.
tough egg to crack and tough nut to
crackn. a person or thing that is hard to
figure out or hard to deal with. This
problem is a tough nut to crack. I wish
Jill wasn’t such a tough nut to crack.
tough guyn. a tough man; a man who
might be part of the underworld. He
was your typical tough guy—jutting chin,
gruff voice—but he was just our decora-
tor checking up on the drapes. So, you
want to be a tough guy, huh?
tough luck and tough cookiesinterj.
That is too bad. Tough luck, but that’s
the way the cookie crumbles. That’s too
bad, tough cookies.
tough nut to crackGo to tough egg to
crack.
tough row to hoen. a difficult task to
carry out; a heavy set of burdens. It’s
a tough row to hoe, but hoe it you will.
This is not an easy task. This is a tough row
to hoe.
tough shit and TSn. tough luck; too bad.
(Usually objectionable.) If you really
think I did wrong, then tough shit! I don’t
care. TS, Fred. That’s really too bad.
tough something outtv. to carry on with
something despite difficulties or set-
backs. Sorry, you’ll just have to tough
it out. I think I can tough it out for an-
other month.
Tough titty! and Tough titties!exclam.
That’s too bad! (Usually objectionable.)
Tough titty! I told you it wouldn’t be
easy. So you missed the bus. Tough titty!
tourist trapn. a place set up to lure tour-
ists in to spend money. (Can be a shop,
a town, or a whole country.) It looked
like a tourist trap, so we didn’t even stop
the car. What keeps these tourists traps
going?
townie[“taUni] n. a permanent (nonstu-
dent) resident of a college town. The
townies get upset when we make a lot of
noise on Sundays. A couple of townies
won the bicycle race.
toxicated and toxy[“taks@ked@d and
“taksi] mod. alcohol intoxicated. He
was just a tad toxy, but no one in the au-
dience could tell. The boss showed up
toxicated after lunch and shocked the sec-
retaries.
toxic waste dumpn. a horrible person or
place. Frank, stop acting like a toxic
waste dump and do as you’re asked.
Let’s get out of this toxic waste dump.
toxyGo to toxicated.
TP and teepee 1. n. toilet paper. (The ab-
breviation is an initialism.) There’s no
TP in the john. Don’t forget to get teepee
at the store. 2. tv. to festoon the trees and
shrubbery of a residential yard with toi-
let paper. (A teenage prank.) All the
swimmers’ houses get teepeed the night be-
fore a meet. Who teepeed my spruce
tree?
track 1. in. [for a laser beam, a phonograph
stylus, a tape head, etc.] to successfullytouched