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hard-assNorth American informal adjectiveTough and uncompromising: I just can’t take her seriously as a hard-ass cop...- He often tends to play the roles of hard-ass, driven characters.
- I can still picture this hard-ass character extolling the virtues of exotic music.
- He's a sleazy, desperately ambitious agent who will stop at nothing to please the hard-ass newspaper columnist.
nounA tough, uncompromising person: he had a reputation as a hard-ass...- The company recently recruited a hard-ass to manhandle the public.
- He learns to be a hard-ass, albeit always an amusing one.
- The crass chief of neurosurgery is a high-strung hard-ass from Boston who makes life miserable for everyone.
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