hard·cov·er

[hahrd-kuhv-er]
noun
1.
a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
adjective
2.
bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: a hardcover series.
3.
noting or pertaining to hardcover books: hardcover sales.
Also, hardback.
Compare paperback.


Origin:
1945–50; hard + cover

hard·cov·ered, adjective
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hardcover

adjective
1. having a hard back or cover; "hardback books" [syn: hardbacked

noun
1. a book with cardboard or cloth or leather covers [syn: hardback
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Hardcover is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
Example sentences
Full-color, hardcover, with everything you need to play.
Mom asks, setting down her book, a hardcover for nursing school.
In it he envisioned a hardcover book containing several hundred blank
  electronic pages.
It was also a year in which a number of books that sold modestly in hardcover
  became blockbusters in trade paperback.
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