hard case

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noun

a rough, hard-bitten person.

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Origin of hard case

An Americanism dating back to 1830–40

Words nearby hard case

hard-boiled, hardboot, hard bop, hardbound, hard candy, hard case, hard cash, hard chancre, hard cheese, hard cider, hard clam

Other definitions for hard case (2 of 2)

hard-case

[ hahrd-keys ]

/ ˈhɑrdˌkeɪs /

adjective

rough and hard-bitten: hard-case juvenile delinquents.

Origin of hard-case

First recorded in 1915–20

How to use hard case in a sentence

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There’s a cell-phone extraction machine in the back corner, and several drones stacked in hard cases.
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Certain features of its history suggest why this may be the case.
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And, in the case of fluoride, at least, that doubt might actually be justified.
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Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
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But so-called jungle primaries are notoriously hard to predict or poll.
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Her latest book, Heretic: The Case for a Muslim Reformation, will be published in April by HarperCollins.
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The case was an assault and battery that came off between two men named Brown and Henderson.
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In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
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Sometimes in the case of large plants, cones have been known to occur on the tips of the branches of the Marsh Horsetail.
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As a rule, however, even in the case of extreme varieties, a careful examination of the specimen will enable it to be identified.
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Thus was the man left entirely to the devil, not even his life being reserved, as in the case of Job.
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