Definitions
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- adjective of a book Having a solid binding;
hardback . - adjective Having a hard back.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a hard back or cover
Etymologies
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Examples
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Through the stuttering doors of the other hall lurks a gathering of spare souls who saved for hardbacked notebooks and empty time to be filled with fictions.
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For Bittman fans, it's a good approach to a cookbook: an enormous hardbacked monster of a book, 1000 recipes from everywhere, and especially useful if you've got ingredients but no specific direction you want to go.
Sunday is Food Day: Vichyssoise jkd 2009
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For Bittman fans, it's a good approach to a cookbook: an enormous hardbacked monster of a book, 1000 recipes from everywhere, and especially useful if you've got ingredients but no specific direction you want to go.
Archive 2009-06-01 Claire 2009
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Seeing the entire universes Jack Kirby created for his characters to exist inlike in the "Fourth World" books, Kamandi, The Demon, OMAC, Machine Man, The Eternals..., all by himself in a tiny little windowless studio sitting in a stiff hardbacked chair, I can only imagine what an Aquaman comic--with his attendant built-in fantasy world setting of Atlantis--written and drawn by Kirby might have looked like.
Archive 2008-03-01 rob! 2008
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My first book with a recipe was a hardbacked Sesame Street book that had a recipe for banana bread.
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I'm sure this was hardbacked under a different title.
Stuff Ed Gorman 2007
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I'm sure this was hardbacked under a different title.
Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Gorman 2007
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His rock-climbing magazines and the black, hardbacked notebooks that he'd used for work.
Calling A Dead Man Cross, Gillian 2001
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Or perhaps, the Posse says, these drivers were "hardbacked" by the PPA ticket writer.
Phillies Zone 2011
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Or a nasty citizen trash-talked him, so he hardbacked a ticket as passive-aggressive payback.
Phillies Zone 2011
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