hard up
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English[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
hard up (comparative more hard up, superlative most hard up)
- (colloquial) Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:impoverished
- 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, […]
- (colloquial) Lacking anything.
- We were hard up for amusements.
- (colloquial, by extension) Desperate.
- Dating him? She must be hard up.
Translations[edit]
lacking money
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