Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The refuse or coarse part of flax, hemp, or wool.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The refuse or coarse part of flax; tow.
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- noun Plural form of
hard . - noun The
refuse orcoarse part offlax ;tow .
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Examples
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One of the die-hards is Mital Gandhi, a Republican whom Fenty appointed to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and the Board of Elections and Ethics (though the latter was nixed by the D.C. Council).
Fenty write-in campaign isn't going away Mike DeBonis 2010
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One of the die-hards is Mital Gandhi, a Republican whom Fenty appointed to the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and the Board of Elections and Ethics (though the latter was nixed by the D.C. Council).
Fenty write-in campaign isn't going away Mike De Bonis 2010
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Speaking truth to Republican die-hards is not easy.
It appears that liberal judges are allowing Al Franken to steal a seat in the senate. 2009
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Speaking truth to Republican die-hards is not easy.
It appears that liberal judges are allowing Al Franken to steal a seat in the senate. 2009
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You didn't use the other common erroneous segue I find among Hillary die-hards, which is to segue to some variant of 'well, she's so much better than the guy now in office' ...... as though she is running against Bush.
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The real die-hards, which is the special operations folks, the Republican Guard, they may stay until the end.
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This question was finally answered when I came to Bulgaria, where they can frequently be found on restaurant menus and often hilariously mistranslated into English as "hards".
Bizarre Foods BG: Chicken Hearts Greg 2009
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This question was finally answered when I came to Bulgaria, where they can frequently be found on restaurant menus and often hilariously mistranslated into English as "hards".
Archive 2009-02-01 Greg 2009
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Doesn't that place restrictions on the "hards", creating frustrations for them?
low floor, high ceiling OR low floor, wide walls? Bill Kerr 2008
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Indeed, it is true that one doesn't have to look far to find flagrant excess in this culture, where die-hards spend more furnishing a living room with speakers than many do filling their garages.
The Best Luxury Audio Gear John Herrman 2010
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