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hard knock

hard knock adjective: experiencing a lot of difficulties, hardships, or tough situations in life.

Adjective

hard knock (comparative hard knocker, superlative hard knockest)

  1. Experiencing a lot of difficulties, hardships, or tough situations in life.

Forms of hard knock

Adjective
comparativehard knocker
superlativehard knockest
Noun
pluralhard knocks

Words formed from hard knock

Questions about hard knock

What does hard knock mean?
Hard knock means experiencing a lot of difficulties, hardships, or tough situations in life.
What part of speech is hard knock?
Hard knock is an adjective.

Words near hard knock in the dictionary

  1. hard inquiries
  2. hard inquiry
  3. hard jade
  4. hard jades
  5. hard kill
  6. hard knock
  7. hard knocks
  8. hard labor
  9. hard labour
  10. hard land
  11. hard landed

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