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Adjective: hard up
  1. Not having enough money to pay for necessities
    - impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched, badly-off

See also: poor

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hard sauce
hard sell
hard shoulder
hard solder
hard steel
hard surface
hard tick
hard time
hard times
hard to please
hard up
hard water
hard wheat
hard worker
hard-and-fast
hardback
hardbacked
hardbake
hard-baked
hardball
hard-bitten