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rock-hard
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As he stuck a sceptical thumb into a tub of rock-hard Camembert, he knew he was facing a first-class mess.
▪ Granny Weatherwax lay in it, her dress torn, her hair uncoiling from its rock-hard bun.
▪ Her father, under a soft, plump, vague appearance, was rock-hard.
▪ It was rock-hard and dry as a biscuit.
▪ Many had protective foils like thorns and spines, with much of the plant tissue containing rock-hard phytoliths or tough fibrous cellulose.
▪ Tekla, the dark-eyed young Gentile woman with red cheeks, brought us tea and rock-hard kichel.
▪ The result, taut abs, a rock-hard butt and twanging musculature, was still not enough to save her marriage.
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rock-hard

a. (alternative form of rock hard English)

Usage examples of "rock-hard".

And as the tide of battle turned over VeeRon, First Major Firebird Angelo huddled down upon a rock-hard cot and cried bitterly.

I liked holding still with Brody rock-hard inside me, liked the feel of his slightest shift, liked the hoarse, whispered words that told me how tightly I sheathed him and how splendid it felt.

So it was that, when the heavily-armed and mounted element of bushwhackers struck the head of the column, they found not a shattered, disorganized and demoralized party to slaughter and plunder at leisure, but rather a rock-hard line of disciplined troops.

Backbreaker Ames called him out on New Angola, and though Ames was seven feet tall, 400 pounds of rock-hard muscle, and a former freehand heavyweight champion, the young Widowmaker killed him in hand-to-hand combat.

Every coast that fringed the ocean shattered under the rock-hard water-hammer.

He knew that the ridge was composed of rock-hard calcrete, lumpy and broken, and he knew also that no human being could follow him over that ground.

By the standards of modern horticulture, they would have been too tart, nearly bitter, but eaten with a meal consisting of half-cooked cold bear meat an rock-hard corn dodgers, they were delicious-fresh explosions of flavor in my mouth.

Doubly bent, his neck was wide open and she drove one rock-hard, enhanced-strength, elbow blow into the back of his neck, dropping him to the ground.

He slid his press card into the band of his Australian bush hat and waddled out the door and down the dusty street to the pier where rock-hard, rope-muscled islanders were loading fifty-five-gallon drums into cargo nets and hoisting them into the holds of the Micro Spirit.

Cridi amulet power surrounded him with a rock-hard shell of invisible force, clamping him in place and forcing his arms down against his sides.

But my ice axe was outside with the others, sunk in the deepening snow and rock-hard ice, with about a hundred feet of spidersilk climbing rope lashed around it and over the tent and back again.

I ran my hand down the glossy neck, and patted the dark bay shoulder, and felt the slender, rock-hard forelegs.

He found himself remembering Low Key Lyesmith's tall tales of the Minnesota winters-particularly the one about a hunter treed by a bear during a hard freeze who took out his dick and pissed an arching yellow stream of steaming urine that was already frozen hard before it hit the ground, then slid down the rock-hard frozen-piss-pole to freedom.

He found himself remembering Low Key Lyesmith’s tall tales of the Minnesota winters—particularly the one about a hunter treed by a bear during a hard freeze who took out his dick and pissed an arching yellow stream of steaming urine that was already frozen hard before it hit the ground, then slid down the rock-hard frozen-piss-pole to freedom.

Some feller would show up waving a paper that proved he owned the land we'd done the work on—damn rock-hard mound we had cleared and hacked and hoed all them long years before that city feller ever heard of southwest Florida—and a couple of sheriff's deputies right beside him to make sure them squatters got off his land quick, didn't try no mulatta tricks on this here city sonofabitch that called himself the rightful owner.