I describe an Easter egg boiled until firm, as well as a gruff, cynical private eye wandering the streets of a vintage noir detective film. What term am I?
Hard-boiled
'Hard-boiled' refers both to fully cooked eggs and to a genre of tough, unsentimental crime fiction.
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