Word.ws English Dictionary

hardon

hardon is the alternative form of hard-on.

Meaning of hard-on

Noun

hard-on (plural hard-ons)

  1. (slang, vulgar) An erection of the penis.
    • I'm lying here with a hard-on, it's not even 10:00 yet.1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere)
  2. (figuratively, slang, vulgar) A desirous arousal based on a fascination or obsession.
    • ... and corporations duke it out with the kind of military tactics and apparatus that would give anybody who appreciates the Navy SEALs a hard-on.2012 August 27, Wayne Alan Brenner, “Capitalism, Weaponized: Sun Tzu Gets Cyberpunk’d”, The Austin Chronicle, section Daily Chronolog

Proper noun capitalized: Hardon

Hardon

  1. A rare surname.

Forms of hardon

pluralhardons

Questions about hardon

What does hardon mean?
Hardon means a rare surname.
What is hardon the alternative form of?
Hardon is the alternative form of hard-on.
What part of speech is hardon?
Hardon is a proper noun.

Words near hardon in the dictionary

  1. hardo
  2. hardo bread
  3. hardock
  4. hardocks
  5. Hardoi
  6. hardon
  7. hardons
  8. hardos
  9. hardover
  10. hardovers
  11. hardpack

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hardon (page history and authors); Hardon (page history and authors); hard-on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-hardon.wav.

Cite this entry: “hardon.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hardon. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.