Meanings of hardboiled detective in English

Of course heat will, as we know from hard-boiled yolks and custards.

Cut hard-boiled eggs in half the long way and remove the yolks.

Take yolk of one hard-boiled egg and rub smooth in a bowl.

Remember the grubs of the greenbottle, fed on hard-boiled white of egg.

Break the shells from the hard-boiled eggs, and cover with this mixture.

Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler were the founding fathers of the American school of hard-boiled detective fiction.

The basic idea of every hard-boiled detective story is that the private eye searches for the clues with which to solve a mystery.

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.

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.

The Surrogates reminded me a little of "The Matrix," a little of Philip K. Dick, with a touch of hard-boiled detective thrown in.