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May 25, 2012
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hard-boiled



Pronunciation: (härd'boild'), [key]
—adj.
1. Cookery.(of an egg) boiled in the shell long enough for the yolk and white to solidify.
2. Informal.tough; unsentimental: a hard-boiled vice-squad detective.
3. marked by a direct, clear-headed approach; realistic: a hard-boiled appraisal of the foreign situation.
4. (of detective fiction) written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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