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hard time

hard time noun: difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.

Noun

hard time (countable and uncountable, plural hard times)

  1. (colloquial, countable) Difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
    • They had a hard time putting the self-assembly furniture together without a manual.
    • The day passed without further incident. As did the next. And then the next. Until, eventually, Agnes began to have a hard time believing that anything strange had ever happened at all.2011, Mark Lavorato, Believing Cedric
  2. (colloquial, uncountable) A prison term.
    • Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.

Forms of hard time

pluralhard times

Words formed from hard time

Questions about hard time

What does hard time mean?
Hard time means difficulties; a difficult time; trouble.
What part of speech is hard time?
Hard time is a noun.
What is the plural of hard time?
The plural of hard time is hard times.

Words near hard time in the dictionary

  1. hard tacks
  2. hard tech
  3. hard telling, not knowing
  4. hard tick
  5. hard ticks
  6. hard time
  7. hard times
  8. hard to swallow
  9. hard truth
  10. hard truths
  11. hard up

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