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Hard up

Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.

📖 Definitions of "Hard up"

adjective
  1. 1

    Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties.

  2. 2

    Lacking anything.

    "We were hard up for amusements."

  3. 3

    (by extension) Desperate.

    "Dating him? She must be hard up."

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