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Meaning of hard up

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

hard up

adjective

Definitions

  1. Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.

  2. Lacking anything.

    Example: We were hard up for amusements.

  3. (by extension) Desperate.

    Example: Dating him? She must be hard up.

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hard%20up

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