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I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.
Ana Ortiz

Meaning of "hard-boiled" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HARD-BOILED

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HARD-BOILED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hard-Boiled is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HARD-BOILED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hardboiled

Hardboiled fiction is a literary genre that shares to some degree its characters and settings with crime fiction. Although deriving from romantic tradition which emphasized the emotions of apprehension, horror and terror, and awe, the hardboiled fiction deviates from the tradition in the detective's cynical attitude towards those emotions. The attitude is conveyed through the detective's self-talk describing to the reader what he is doing and feeling. The genre's typical protagonist was a detective, who daily witnesses the violence of organized crime that flourished during Prohibition, while dealing with a legal system that had become as corrupt as the organized crime itself. Rendered cynical by this cycle of violence, the detectives of hardboiled fiction are classic antiheroes.

Definition of hard-boiled in the English dictionary

The first definition of hard-boiled in the dictionary is boiled until the yolk and white are solid. Other definition of hard-boiled is tough, realistic. Hard-Boiled is also cynical.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HARD-BOILED

hard-ass
hard-assed
hard-bitten
hard-drinking
hard-earned
hard-edge
hard-edged
hard-faced
hard-fought
hard-hat
hard-headed
hard-headedly
hard-headedness
hard-hit
hard-hitting
hard-left
hard-luck story
hard-mouthed
hard-nosed
hard-on

WORDS THAT END LIKE HARD-BOILED

boiled
charbroiled
detailed
embroiled
failed
oiled
shopsoiled
soft-boiled
spoiled
tiled
trefoiled
unboiled
unbroiled
undespoiled
unfoiled
unoiled
unsoiled
unspoiled
well oiled
well-oiled

Synonyms and antonyms of hard-boiled in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HARD-BOILED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hard-boiled» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hard-boiled

Translation of «hard-boiled» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HARD-BOILED

Find out the translation of hard-boiled to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hard-boiled from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hard-boiled» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

水煮蛋
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cocido
570 millions of speakers

English

hard-boiled
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पूरे उबले
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

المسلوق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

вкрутую
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cozido
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভাল করে সিদ্ধ করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dur
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

rebus
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hart gekocht
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

固ゆでの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

완숙의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hard-nggodhok
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gan dạ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடினமாகும் வரையில் கொதிக்க வைக்கப்பட்ட
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चिवट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Sert haşlanmış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sodo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

twardo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

круто
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

fiert tare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βραστά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hardgekookte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hårdkokt
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hardkokte
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hard-boiled

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD-BOILED»

The term «hard-boiled» is quite widely used and occupies the 45.608 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HARD-BOILED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hard-boiled

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8 QUOTES WITH «HARD-BOILED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hard-boiled.
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Megan Abbott
I wrote my graduate thesis at New York University on hard-boiled fiction from the 1930s and 1940s, so, for about two years, I read nothing but Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Cain and Chester Himes. I developed such a love for this kind of writing.
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Avi
I definitely have an affection for detective fiction, and when I first read Dashiell Hammett's 'The Maltese Falcon,' that book and its author made an enormous impression on me as a reader and a writer, and led me to other hard-boiled American writers like Raymond Chandler and Ross McDonald, among many.
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James M. Cain
I make no conscious effort to be tough, or hard-boiled, or grim, or any of the things I am usually called.
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Joseph M. Kyrillos
I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator.
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Martina McBride
I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.
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Wilson Mizner
Most hard-boiled people are half-baked.
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Ana Ortiz
I need to eat before a workout. If I exercise in the morning, I'll have a little oatmeal, cereal, or a hard-boiled egg with toast. If I go in the afternoon, I'll eat a turkey sandwich with cheese for lunch.
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Marissa Jaret Winokur
I always have hard-boiled eggs with me to eat egg whites for protein. Even when I travel, I bring eggs with me so I don't eat the plane food. Yes, I'm the person you do not want to sit next to with hard-boiled eggs.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARD-BOILED»

Discover the use of hard-boiled in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hard-boiled and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World
'His fantasies, with their easy reference to western pulp fiction and music, retain a beauty of the mind' Guardian 'A remarkable writer...he captures the common ache of the contemporary heart and head' Jay McInerney 'Combines a witty sci-fi ...
Haruki Murakami, 2011
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Hard Boiled
Carl Seltz is a suburban insurance investigator, a loving husband, and devoted father. Nixon is a berserk, homicidal tax collector racking up mind-boggling body counts in a diseased urban slaughterhouse.
Geofrey Darrow, 1993
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Hard-boiled Masculinities
Examining the work of Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett, Chester Himes, and William Faulkner, as well as many lesser-known writers for the hypermasculine pulp magazines of the 1920s and 1930s, Breu illustrates how the tough male was a ...
Christopher Breu, 2005
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Hard-Boiled
An examination of the culture that produced and supported pulp-fiction.
Erin Smith, 2010
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Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition
Authors of these works are powerful players in the publishing system as well as agents of cultural intervention, Walton and Jones claim. They conclude by examining the rise of female detectives in television and film.
Priscilla L. Walton, Manina Jones, 1999
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Hard-Boiled Men
In Asian massage parlors, university hallways and West village anarchy, Hard-Boiled Men is as likely to entertain you as it is to infuriate you.
Guy Jacobs, 2006
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Cracking the Hard-Boiled Detective: A Critical History from ...
It follows change in the novels through three main periods: the Early (roughly 1927-1955), during which the character was defined by such writers as Carroll John Daly, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler; the Transitional, evident by 1964 ...
Lewis D. Moore, 2006
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Gumshoe America: Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Rise and ...
The noir novelists of Sean McCann's shrewd and disturbing "Gumshoe America "devised a fierce, experimental pop-Modernism, an intransigent anti-popular strain within popular culture.
Sean McCann, 2000
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Hard-Boiled Sentimentality: The Secret History of American ...
Cassuto offers an unconventional interpretation of American literature's most "masculine" genre, the American crime story, arguing that its origins can be traced, paradoxically, to nineteenth-century sentimental narratives which were almost ...
Leonard Cassuto, 2013
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James M. Cain: Hard-Boiled Mythmaker
With its significant in-depth analysis and a foreword by Edgar-award winning author Max Allan Collins, this volume will be of interest to Cain scholars as well as anyone interested in 20th century American literature and film.
David Madden, Kristopher Mecholsky, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARD-BOILED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hard-boiled is used in the context of the following news items.
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At the Market Now, Vivid Green Fava Beans Are Bursting Out of …
... alongside some thin spring asparagus spears, and top with an herby gremolata, or chopped hard-boiled egg and a sprinkling of toasted pine ... «Village Voice, Jul 15»
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First Nations food truck welcomes Pan Am patrons | Toronto Star
(113 g) smoked rainbow or lake trout, skinned, boned, flaked. 4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped. 8 grape tomatoes, halved lengthwise. Optional:. «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
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How food makes a holiday | Life and style | The Guardian
A train ride to Syria where there was a sign for a buffet car but no actual carriage beyond it, resulting in hasty picnics of bread, hard-boiled eggs ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Makan Malaysian Cafe Slows Down the Pace in Platt Park - Westword
Whole peanuts and hard-boiled eggs are common enough, but the haystack of crispy-fried anchovies — with glints of silver skin gleaming ... «Westword, Jul 15»
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'An Absolute Blast': Harper and Trout Recall Days as Teammates in …
Everyone knew about Harper, the hard-boiled, eye-black-wearing bundle of energy and raw nerves whose legend at that point preceded him ... «Bleacher Report, Jul 15»
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Spend summer inside with these 8-bit and 16-bit sagas - Metro Times
In Déjà Vu you play as an old queen dressed like Dick Tracy traipsing through every hard-boiled private eye cliché known to the Western world. «Detroit Metro Times, Jul 15»
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Three lovely French roses to drink with summer's le grand aioli : Food
That's the name for both the garlicky, egg-rich mayonnaise and an entire feast — le grand aioli — of raw and cooked vegetables, hard-boiled ... «Hanford Sentinel, Jul 15»
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Review time! with Credence - Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic …
It's fascinating, if flawed, and it's nice to see Easton try something different with the hard-boiled cop trope. It's definitely more thoughtful than you ... «Comic Book Resources, Jul 15»
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For the 1947 Blogathon: They Won't Believe Me! - Blogs - The Rolla …
Larry's character, while conflicted, was not a hard-boiled noirish hero. The 3 women characters weren't femme fatales in the true noir definition, ... «The Rolla Daily News, Jul 15»
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That was the West that was... Dartmoor in WWI | Western Morning …
... about the near-cancellation of the 1917 event: “This year there was a shortage of cereals but I saved the situation with 200 hard-boiled eggs. «Western Morning News, Jul 15»

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