"hard up" meaning in English

{
  "categories": [],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hard up",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hard up",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hard up (comparative more hard up, superlative most hard up)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On being hard up\nI 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, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties."
      ],
      "id": "en-hard_up-en-adj-27y8mYeG",
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "impecunious",
          "impecunious"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "impoverished"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "blut"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "platzak"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "spłukany"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "bez grosza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "bez grosza przy duszy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "goły i wesoły"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "na melí",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "на мели́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bez grošá",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "без гроша́"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "73 26 1",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "roman": "švorc",
          "sense": "lacking money",
          "word": "шворц"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We were hard up for amusements.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking anything."
      ],
      "id": "en-hard_up-en-adj-PIL4NpDC",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Lacking anything."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Dating him? She must be hard up.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Desperate."
      ],
      "id": "en-hard_up-en-adj-fD1XHbJZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "Desperate",
          "desperate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, by extension) Desperate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "hard-up"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard up"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more hard up",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most hard up",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "hard up (comparative more hard up, superlative most hard up)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1886, Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, On being hard up\nI 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, […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "money",
          "money"
        ],
        [
          "impecunious",
          "impecunious"
        ],
        [
          "financial",
          "financial"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Lacking money; impecunious; in financial difficulties."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "impoverished"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We were hard up for amusements.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Lacking anything."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial) Lacking anything."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "colloquial"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Dating him? She must be hard up.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Desperate."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Desperate",
          "desperate"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(colloquial, by extension) Desperate."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "broadly",
        "colloquial"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "hard-up"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "blut"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "platzak"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "spłukany"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "bez grosza"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "bez grosza przy duszy"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "goły i wesoły"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "na melí",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "на мели́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bez grošá",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "без гроша́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "roman": "švorc",
      "sense": "lacking money",
      "word": "шворц"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hard up"
}