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Meanings of hard-boiled detective in English
Tough personality, usually as a fiction genre.
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Examples for "hardboiled"
Examples for "hardboiled"
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Set mostly in the 1940s, the story is blue collar and hardboiled.
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Like most officers in the Solarian Navy, he was a hardboiled agnostic.
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You won't have to pull any of your hardboiled stuff on her.
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The hardboiled white of egg retains its original appearance and consistency.
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Kate Camp discusses The Big Sleep, the 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler.
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Of course heat will, as we know from hard-boiled yolks and custards.
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Cut hard-boiled eggs in half the long way and remove the yolks.
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Take yolk of one hard-boiled egg and rub smooth in a bowl.
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Remember the grubs of the greenbottle, fed on hard-boiled white of egg.
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Break the shells from the hard-boiled eggs, and cover with this mixture.
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Kate Camp discusses The Big Sleep, the 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler.
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In the present tense of drama, he both remembers his childhood that has vanished and re-imagines a hardboiled detective novel he has already written.
Usage of hard-boiled detective in English
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Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler were the founding fathers of the American school of hard-boiled detective fiction.
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The basic idea of every hard-boiled detective story is that the private eye searches for the clues with which to solve a mystery.
3
At these and other locations, Roth read classic yarns, swashbuckling high-seas adventures, hard-boiled detective stories, Western shoot-'em-ups, stories of prospectors digging for gold.
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But as anyone who has read a hard-boiled detective novel knows, police tend to be less than fond of this sort of private-sector competition.
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The Surrogates reminded me a little of "The Matrix," a little of Philip K. Dick, with a touch of hard-boiled detective thrown in.
Translations for hard-boiled detective
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