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hard-and-fast

adj

Etymology

First attested 1867, originally of a ship on shore.

Definitions

  1. strictly maintained

    strictly maintained; not subject to variation

    • to stick to hard-and-fast rules

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hard-and-fast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA