"hard up" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more hard up [comparative], most hard up [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} hard up (comparative more hard up, superlative most hard up)
  1. (colloquial) Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties. Tags: colloquial Synonyms: impoverished Translations (lacking money): blut (Dutch), platzak (Dutch), spłukany (Polish), bez grosza (Polish), bez grosza przy duszy (Polish), goły i wesoły (Polish), на мели́ (na melí) (Russian), без гроша́ (bez grošá) (Russian), шворц (švorc) (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-hard_up-en-adj-27y8mYeG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 83 7 10 Disambiguation of 'lacking money': 73 26 1
  2. (colloquial) Lacking anything. Tags: colloquial
    Sense id: en-hard_up-en-adj-PIL4NpDC
  3. (colloquial, by extension) Desperate. Tags: broadly, colloquial
    Sense id: en-hard_up-en-adj-fD1XHbJZ
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: hard-up

Alternative forms

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      "code": "nl",
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      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "blut"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
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      "word": "platzak"
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      "word": "без гроша́"
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