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adjective
- Resistant to pressure.
- Requiring a lot of effort to do or understand
- a hard problem
- Demanding a lot of effort to endure.
- a hard life
- (context, of a person) , severe, harsh, unfriendly, brutal.
- Unquestionable.
- hard evidence
- Of drink, strong.
- Of water, high in dissolved calcium compounds.
- (context, slang, vulgar) Sexually aroused.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscles that are tightened as a result of intense, regular exercise.
adverb (harder, hardest)
- With much strength or energy
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proper noun
- An alcoholic cocktail made with vodka, vanilla, Vanilla Galliano and orange juice.
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proper noun
- An English surname.
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noun
- A cocktail made from spirit plus soda water etc.
- (railroading) An all clear or full speed ahead signal.
verb
- (slang, rare, or, erroneous) To move quickly; to hightail.
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noun
- A cordial made of spiced wine, etc.
- Quotations
- 1882: Spiced wine, sweetened with sugar or honey, perhaps the original of the modern liqueur, was employed occasionally under the name of hippocras. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 641.
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