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hard-backedadjective1(Of an object) having a firm, rigid back: rows of hard-backed chairs...- Rescuers lifted several injured passengers out of the train on hard-backed stretchers and loaded them onto ambulances.
- He sat straight up against the hard-backed seat on the train, as if in church.
- It was not the hard-backed classic navy suitcase, but a less well-known design.
1.1(Of a book) bound in stiff covers: a heavy, hard-backed volume...- I picked up from the sofa a worn, hard-backed exercise book, a faded red, the spine split.
- I found myself unaccountably giddy at the bonus features of the hard-backed notepads they offered.
- A hard-backed edition would be an asset.
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