hard-boiled

He told me afterward that he tried to find his folks and square himself—and maybe it was the truth—but some of the hard-boiled townspeople found him, instead, and he had a running fight all the way to

'Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.'

Christ, maybe that blond was only a bitch after all. Maybe she put out even to the punks. Come to think of it, she looked a little hard-boiled. The kind of a broad who knew a hell of a lot.

She likes her eggs hard-boiled.

She hard-boiled the eggs.

I hard-boiled an egg.