Usually means: Desperate for money or resources.
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  1. hard up: Merriam-Webster
  2. hard up: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hard-up, hard-up, hard up: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hard up: Vocabulary.com
  5. Hard-up, hard-up, hard up: Wordnik
  6. hard up: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hard up: Wiktionary
  8. Hard up, hard up: Dictionary.com
  9. hard up: Rhymezone
  10. Hard Up: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. hard up: FreeDictionary.org
  12. hard up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. hard-up, hard up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. hard up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hard up: Legal dictionary

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  2. hard up: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hard up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hard up)

adjective:  (colloquial) Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.
adjective:  (colloquial) Lacking anything.
adjective:  (colloquial, by extension) Desperate.
verb:  Synonym of harden up (to become or make hard)

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