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Adjective: hard up
  1. Not having enough money to pay for necessities
    "The hard up gentlemen asked for a loan";
    - impecunious, in straitened circumstances, penniless, penurious, pinched, badly-off

See also: poor

Nearest

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
hardbake
hard-baked
hardball