adjective
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.
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verb (used with object)
to boil (an egg) until the yolk and white have become firm or solid.
Origin:
1890–95
1890–95
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| hard-boiled | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | (of an egg) boiled until the yolk and white are solid |
| 2. | informal |
| a. tough, realistic | |
| b. cynical | |
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