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title: "tuff · GenZ Decoded"
description: "tuff: Cool, impressive, or good. A stylized spelling of tough used as praise for an outfit, a song, or a move. Meaning, Gen Z usage, and related slang."
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# tuff

Gen Z[#cool](https://genzdecoded.com/slang-for/approval/)

**Meaning.** Cool, impressive, or good. A stylized spelling of tough used as praise for an outfit, a song, or a move.

See it in a sentence

Those boots are tuff.

## How each generation says it

The closest equivalent for this idea in every generation.

- Gen Z · this one

    tuff,[bomb](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/bomb/)

- Gen Alpha

    No word for this one yet.

- Millennial

    [awesome](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/awesome/)

- Gen X

    [all that and a bag of chips](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips/),[blazing](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/blazing/)

- Boomer

    [far out](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/far-out/),[groovy](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/groovy/)

- Plain English

    cool, impressive, or good

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- [How every generation says that's excellent](https://genzdecoded.com/how-to-say/thats-excellent/)

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## Related slang

- [solid](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/solid/): Excellent, dependable, or agreeable; a mark of approval.
- [tubular](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/tubular/): Excellent or amazing; originally from surfing culture.
- [type shit](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/type-shit/): A casual, mildly vulgar yes, meaning agreed, exactly, for real, or that is the kind of thing I mean.
- [understood the assignment](https://genzdecoded.com/dictionary/understood-the-assignment/): Did exactly what was needed and did it well.

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