2syllables
hardboiled
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Definitions ofhardboiled
1verb
- To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.
1adjective
- (of a boiled egg) Cooked to a solid consistency.
- (of a person, especially of a detective) Callous and unsentimental.
- Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect (characterizes hard-boiled fiction, a subgenre of detective fiction)
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