1. hardboiled - Adjective
2. hardboiled - Verb
hardboiled (comparative more hardboiled, superlative most hardboiled)
Alternative spelling of hard-boiled
hardboiled
simple past and past participle of hardboil
Ballinger and Graydon (2007), p. 279. Between 1983 and 1989, Mickey Spillane 's hardboiled private eye Mike Hammer was played with wry gusto by Stacy Keach in a series and several stand-alone television films (an unsuccessful revival followed in 1997–98). Source: Internet
As a young girl I read Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler a lot, and I really liked that kind of hardboiled and humorous metaphor. Source: Internet
Borubaev, widowed, fond of a vodka, invariably caught between local and geopolitical forces, gangsters and the general toughness of Bishkek life, is so hardboiled he doesn’t crack a smile in any of the books. Source: Internet
Bondurant writes in a straightforward, somewhat hardboiled manner, reminiscent of James Carlos Blake and later-period Cormac McCarthy, and his fictionalized take on the underground economy of illicit liquor-making makes for compelling reading." Source: Internet
Every type of mystery fiction is represented, from the classic whodunit to the hardboiled tale to suspense — and everything in between! Source: Internet
Hemingway’s 1926 became the hardboiled touchstone, with its interior monologue, stark prose, and colloquial turns of phrase. Source: Internet