Crossword clues for diehard
diehard
- Willis blockbuster
- Stubborn to the last
- Steadfast person
- Staunch (supporter)
- Sears battery
- Persistent one
- One strongly opposed to change
- Hire dad (anag) — one who sticks to traditional views
- Fanatically devoted
- Bruce Willis trilogy with a "4.0" scheduled for late 2006
- Bruce Willis flick
- Alan Rickman's first movie
- Adherent of traditional views
- Action flick that takes place in the Nakatomi Plaza
- Action film that featured John McClane
- Action film in which Hans Gruber quotes Plutarch
- 1988 thriller with Alan Rickman as terrorist Hans Gruber
- 1988 movie set in the Nakatomi Plaza building
- 1988 Bruce Willis action flick with four sequels: 2 wds
- Action movie series
- Blockbuster Bruce Willis movie
- One who just won't give up
- Zealot
- One who adheres to traditional views
- Steadfast one
- Extreme conservative
- Stubborn one
- One who resists the new order
- One who sticks to traditional views
- What Alan Rickman initially performed outside, being dauntless
- Film – director's first – that is difficult to follow
- Reactionary assembly, grim for its time
- Bruce Willis film (2 wds.)
- Backer of a losing cause
- Having difficulty following the German action film
- Stubborn person
- Stubborn holdout
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
diehard \die"hard`\ (d[imac]"h[aum]rd`), n.
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one who stubbornly adheres to traditional and outdated views.
Syn: traditionalist.
one who vigorously defends an apparently hopeless position, a lost cause, etc.
diehard \die"hard`\ (d[imac]"h[aum]rd`), a. stubbornly and vigorously resisting in the face of seemingly hopeless odds; as, diehard opposition.
Syn: never-say-die. [PJC]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 unreasonably or stubbornly resisting change. 2 fanatically opposing progress or reform. 3 complete; having no opposite opinion of anything in a particular topic of one's values; thorough of in one's beliefs. n. A person with such an attitude.
WordNet
n. one who adheres to traditional views [syn: traditionalist]
Wikipedia
DieHard is a premium brand of automotive battery marketed by Sears Holdings retailers, including Sears and Kmart. The brand is owned by KCD IP, LLC, a special purpose entity created by Sears Holdings for securitization purposes.
The brand dates to 1967. In its earliest years, the brand was guaranteed to last "forever", that is, as long as the original owner still owned the car in which it was originally installed, far more generous than traditional pro rata battery warranties. When drivers began to keep automobiles for longer periods than had been traditional previously (due to both their rising cost and hence longer financing contracts, and their improved durability), the cost of this policy became prohibitive and it was discontinued. However, the brand line was kept and expanded; it now includes medium-priced, medium-duty batteries as well as the premium-priced, heavy-duty line with which it was begun, and in recent years has been expanded to include other non-automotive batteries as well. It is used on batteries for motorcycles, boats, golf carts, garden tractors, and snowmobiles.
Some of the batteries themselves are manufactured by Johnson Controls Inc. which also manufacture Duralast, Varta, AC Delco, as well as 20 other brands. For a time, DieHard batteries were also manufactured by Exide. However, they have switched back to Johnson Controls. The DieHard Platinum line is made by EnerSys, which also makes its own line of premium Odyssey batteries manufactured in the United States.
The DieHard brand is also used on battery chargers, booster cables, power inverters, alkaline batteries, work boots, and more recently the batteries for Craftsman power tools.
Usage examples of "diehard".
In their first yielding of territory since the Opium Wars, the British negotiated with Eugene Chen the relinquishment of the Hankow and Kiukang Concessions while diehards thundered red-faced in their clubs and the Empire quivered.
Of all the diehard rationalists she had ever encountered-including her father-Mary Jo topped the list.
He was one of those preposterous phenomena which afflict the public once in a generation like an epidemic: he resembled no other performer, living or dead, and indeed there was a cadre of diehards which forlornly maintained that he was not a performer at all, but millions of 100 per cent American housewives would have taken a Trappist vow sooner than they would have missed their daily dose of Ziggy Zaglan.
There was some halfhearted booing from the diehards who never want a fight stopped, and one of Canelli's cornermen was insisting his fighter could have gone on, but Canelli himself seemed just as happy the show was over.
Christmas on the Miracle Strip closed everything but a handful of diehard coffee shops and motels.
And I hardly need remind you, reverend friars, that your own most butcherlike commander, Beltran de Guzmán, is to this day still trying to crush the diehard bands of Purémpecha around Lake Chapalan and in other remote corners of New Galicia that yet refuse to surrender to your King Carlos and your Lord God.
All would probably have been well, had not the chairman of the trustees of the pension fund been a diehard magician and reactionary Albionese nationalist by the name of Merlin.
The South Vietnamese really only needed pep talks and fine tuning, but the redeemable commies -- Northerners that we thought might be able to influence the diehard Reds back home -- they needed out-and-out conversion and hypnagogic reinforcement.
The Humphrey/Muskie axis had been desperately trying to put something together with aging diehards like Wilbur Mills, George Meany, and Mayor Daley -- hoping to stop McGovern just short of 1400 -- but on the weekend after the New York sweep George picked up another fifty or so from the last of the non-primary state caucuses and by Sunday, June 25th, he was only a hundred votes away from the 1509 that would zip it all up on the first ballot.