Definitions
1.verbTo cook (an egg) to a solid consistency: to cause to be hard-boiled.
2.adjective(of a boiled egg) Cooked to a solid consistency.
3.adjective(of a person, especially of a detective) Callous and unsentimental.
4.adjectiveWritten in a laconic, dispassionate, often ironic style for a realistic, unsentimental effect (characterizes hard-boiled fiction, a subgenre of detective fiction)