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Noun: hard time
  1. A difficulty that can be overcome with effort
    "we had a hard time getting here";
    - rough sledding
     
  2. A term served in a maximum security prison

Derived forms: hard times

Type of: difficultness, difficulty, fix [informal], hole [informal], jam [informal], kettle of fish [informal], mess [informal], muddle [informal], pickle [informal], prison term, sentence, time

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hard rush
hard sauce
hard sell
hard shoulder
hard sign
hard solder
hard steel
hard subtitle
hard surface
hard tick
hard time
hard times
hard to please
hard up
hard water
hard wheat
hard worker
hard-and-fast
hard-ass
hardback
hardbacked