Definition of "hardshell" [hardshell]

• Having a tough outer shell (adjective)
• Rigid or uncompromising in principles, especially in religion or politics. (adjective)

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• "He had a nice family, a good house, and he was a clever gentleman, and a "hardshell" Baptist of the first water."
• "     Some hardshell lowroller once told him, fly in the sky and get hard or you die ..."
• "Have you ever had the classic Carvel vanilla soft serve with that awesome chocolate hardshell?"