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hard up |
hard water |
hard wheat |
hard wired |
hard worker |
hard-and-fast
| hard-baked
| hard-bitten
| hard-boiled
| hard-boiled egg
| hard-bound
hard-and-fast
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hard-and-fast has 1 sense
- hard-and-fast(s = adj.all) strict - (of rules) stringently enforced; "hard-and-fast rules"
CIDE DICTIONARY
hard-and-fast, adj.
invariable; firmly established; as, hard-and-fast regulations. [WordNet 1.5]
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