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Hardboiled

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

📖 Definitions of "Hardboiled"

verb
  1. 1

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

adjective
  1. 1

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

  2. 2

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

  3. 3

    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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