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  • adjective of a book Having a solid binding; hardback.
  • adjective Having a hard back.

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  • adjective having a hard back or cover

Etymologies

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hard +‎ backed

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Examples

  • 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.

    Reading at the Anatomy Museum 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • My first book with a recipe was a hardbacked Sesame Street book that had a recipe for banana bread.

    zucchini bread | smitten kitchen 2007

  • I'm sure this was hardbacked under a different title.

    Stuff Ed Gorman 2007

  • I'm sure this was hardbacked under a different title.

    Archive 2007-10-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • His rock-climbing magazines and the black, hardbacked notebooks that he'd used for work.

    Calling A Dead Man Cross, Gillian 2001

  • Or perhaps, the Posse says, these drivers were "hardbacked" by the PPA ticket writer.

    Phillies Zone 2011

  • Or a nasty citizen trash-talked him, so he hardbacked a ticket as passive-aggressive payback.

    Phillies Zone 2011

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