1. hard up - Adjective
2. hard up - Phrase
3. hard up - Adjective Satellite
not having enough money to pay for necessities
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After all it cost me nothing and at the time I was particularly hard up and it gave me pleasure to spend his fortune for him. Source: Internet
Holst and his wife decided, as Imogen later put it, that "as they were always hard up the only thing to do was to spend it all at once on a holiday in Germany". Source: Internet
The five-year-old was jagged back to the rear at Coffs Harbour from barrier 1 last start before making a run hard up on the fence to just miss. Source: Internet
I walked fast and hard up the sidewalk, wondering if all the terrible things I knew to be true somehow didn’t exist anymore — if the passage of time had voided them out entirely. Source: Internet
How dare he or she think I’m so hard up for companionship that I’d share my bon mots with just anyone. Source: Internet
Were it not for being irreverent, we would suggest that He was hard up for something to do when He made any of those pests you call his handiwork." Source: Internet