Какво означава hard-boiled на английски?

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hard-boiled Значение & определение

0 A hard-boiled egg has been heated in its shell in boiling water until both the white and yellow parts are solid.
1 used to describe a style of story, usually about crime and detectives (= people who solve crimes), that includes unpleasant or violent details:
- This is a series that comes from the tradition of hard-boiled detective novels.
- The film stars Kathleen Turner as the hard-boiled detective of Sarah Paretsky's novel.
- He's hard-boiled, he smokes and drinks, he's too wrapped up in his work to have satisfying relationships.
2 (of an egg) boiled in its shell until both the white and yellow parts are solid
3 appearing not to have emotions or weaknesses:
- a hard-boiled detective

Each tale is told in a different style: ghost story, hard-boiled mystery, science fiction.
It's the classic hard-boiled crime plot.
His prose and characters borrow a bit from Raymond Chandler's hard-boiled L. A. noirs.
Frank Miller's stark, hard-boiled graphic novels
hard-boiled private detectives like Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe
That did not work very well either, so she started hawking hard-boiled eggs with pepper (a popular snack).
We are "hard-boiled," we know the strength, we know the game—the ducking and diving just before an election.
I continue to eat hard-boiled, scrambled or lightly fried eggs.