How to pronounce “hard-boiled”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Cooked to a solid consistency. (of a boiled egg)
• Callous and unsentimental. (of a person, especially a detective)
• (literature, especially detective fiction) Written in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect.
• [Verb]
• simple past and past participle of hard-boil

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