adjective (informal)
1 having very little money, especially for a short period of time:
hard up students * They're not really as hard up as they say they are.
2 ~ (for sth) lacking in sth interesting to do, talk about, etc:
'You could always go out with Steve.' 'I'm not that hard up!' * The newspapers must be hard up for news if they've got to publish stories like that (= they must have very little real news).
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for hard up is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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