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hard
adjective- of drinks, intoxicating, spiritous, “strong” US, 1789
- Look, mister, we serve hard drinks in here for men who want to get drunk fast. — USA Today, 17 January 2000
- (used of drugs) powerfully addictive US, 1955
- I read him the riot law–if I find out you’re using hard shit I’m gonna pull your tongue out yo’ ass, etc. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 73, 1975
- The hard-stuff trade is dead. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 247, 1979
- Hard drugs were for running away from life, for altering your mind or searching your soul–heroin, morphine and barbiturates. Acid lay somewhere between soft and hard. — Simon Napier-Bell, Black Vinyl White Powder, p. 124, 2001
- fine, excellent US
- — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 235, 1948: “A glossary of Harlemisms”
- I was givin’ him some balls off too, but their game was not as hard as mine! — Henry Williamson, Hustler!, p. 128, 1965
- — Judi Sanders, Da Bomb, p. 7, 1997
- muscular, toned US
- — Judi Sanders, Cal Poly Slang, p. 5, 1990
- of rock music, serious, uncompromising, with a strong rhythmic force US
- The big hook of Sunshine Of Your Love is a grinding, instantly memorable hard-rock riff, stuttering between two notes before hellishly descending for a few more, then rising in an upward squiggle. — The Guardian, 31 January 2004
- of rave music, relentlessly rhythmic UK
- Then we got a beer and headed for one of the “harder” rooms where we loafed for a bit, had a bit of a groove when it starts kicking off. — Ben Malbon, Cool Places, p. 272, 1998
- of pornographic material, descriptive of anything that is more explicit than society finds generally acceptable UK, 1969
A flexible standard depending on where you are. - Erika’s repressed emotional life is displaced not merely into her specialist passion for Schubert and Schumann, but into a taste for hard porn. — The Guardian, 15 May 2001
- in craps, a point made with a matching pair US, 1930
A bet on a “hard” number means that the only combination that will win is a pair. Often used in the phrase “the hard way”. - With equal ease, I could quote the Roman lyric poet, Catullus, or the odds against making four the hard way. — Jim Thompson, Roughneck, p. 2, 1954
- It was hot and dry, and they pay 10 to 1 on eight the hard way. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 187, 1957
- Two thousand dollar hard eight. — Hard Eight, 1996
- (used of straightened hair) heavily greased US
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 64, 1970
- in blackjack, said of a hand without an ace or with an ace and a value of 12 or higher US
- — Jerry L. Patterson, Blackjack, p. 19, 1978
- (used of a theatre ticket) reserved for a specific seat US
- — Sherman Louis Sergel, The Language of Show Biz, p. 104, 1973
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