Food & drink pronunciation

hardboiled

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Meaning

verb

To cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.

adjective

(of a boiled egg) Cooked to a solid consistency.

adjective

(of a person, especially of a detective) Callous and unsentimental.

adjective

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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