hard up

== English == === Alternative forms === hard-up === Adjective === 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. (colloquial, by extension) Desperate. ==== Translations ==== === Verb === hard up (third-person singular simple present hards up, present participle harding up, simple past and past participle harded up) Synonym of harden up (to become or make hard) === Anagrams === purdah