Usually means: Difficult situation or stubborn person.
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  1. hard case: Merriam-Webster
  2. hard case: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hard case: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hard case: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hard-case: Wordnik
  6. hard case: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hard case: Wiktionary
  8. hard case: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. hard case: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Hard case, hard-case, hard case: Dictionary.com
  11. The Hard Case: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. hard case: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hard case: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hard case: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hard case: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (hard case)

▸ noun:  (slang, mildly derogatory) A tough person.
▸ noun:  (New Zealand, slang) An amusing, funny, witty, or possibly strange person.

Similar:
hardcase, tough case, hard-ass, toughie, tough cookie, tough nut, hardballer, hard-nose, hardman, mental case, more...

Phrases:
a hard case, Hard Case Crime, The Hard Case, more...

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Similar:
hardcase, tough case, hard-ass, toughie, tough cookie, tough nut, hardballer, hard-nose, hardman, mental case, more...

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a hard case, Hard Case Crime, The Hard Case, more...



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