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Hard up

adj, verb, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties. colloquial

    "1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On being hard up I can speak with authority on the subject of being hard up. I have been a provincial actor. If further evidence be required, which I do not think likely, […]"

  2. 2
    Lacking anything. colloquial

    "We were hard up for amusements."

  3. 3
    Desperate. broadly, colloquial

    "Dating him? She must be hard up."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not having enough money to pay for necessities wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    Synonym of harden up (to become or make hard)

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