The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word STRINGY
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result STRINGY
- Mean to keep recipe for such poor-quality meat
- Gristly pork produced here
- Mean to confine flower that’s fibrous
- Tough call in filthy place
- Mean to keep run tough
- Thin bit of rope held tight? On the contrary
- Not spending money to catch Queen? Tough!
- Sinewy round object in a pigpen
- Wiry loop found in pigpen
- Forming strands that are unattractively thin
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What does STRINGY mean?
STRINGY adjective- Composed of, or resembling, string or strings.
- (of food) Tough to the bite, as containing too much sinew or string tissue.
- (of a person) Wiry, lean, scrawny.
- Resembling or involving text strings.
- Of a sighting, unlikely to be accurate; probably based on a misidentification, whether innocent or deliberate.