Word.ws English Dictionary

tough call

tough call noun: a choice or judgment which is difficult to make, especially one involving only two alternatives.

Noun

tough call (plural tough calls)

  1. (US, idiomatic) A choice or judgment which is difficult to make, especially one involving only two alternatives.
    • Will it work? It's a tough call.2001 June 25, Belinda Luscombe, “Dusting Off Fashion's Old Bags”, in Time

Forms of tough call

pluraltough calls

Questions about tough call

What does tough call mean?
Tough call means a choice or judgment which is difficult to make, especially one involving only two alternatives.
What part of speech is tough call?
Tough call is a noun.
What is the plural of tough call?
The plural of tough call is tough calls.

Words near tough call in the dictionary

  1. tough as teak
  2. tough ask
  3. tough bananas
  4. tough beans
  5. tough break
  6. tough call
  7. tough calls
  8. tough case
  9. tough cases
  10. tough cookie
  11. tough cookies

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tough call (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: En-au-tough call.ogg.

Cite this entry: “tough call.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tough_call. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.