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Meanings of hardboiled detective in English
Tough personality, usually as a fiction genre.
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Usage of hardboiled detective in English
1
Kate Camp discusses The Big Sleep, the 1939 hardboiled detective novel by Raymond Chandler.
2
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.
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Translations for hardboiled detective
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