2. (common).—Intoxicated. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
3. (Winchester College).—Out of countenance; exhausted (in swimming).
Hard-upness or Hard-uppishness, subs. (colloquial).—Poverty; a condition of impoverishment.
1876. Hindley, Adventures of a Cheap Jack. There were frequent … collapses from death or hard-upness.
1883. Illust. London News, 26 May, p. 519, c. 3. These I O U’s … do not imply, as might be supposed, common hardupness.
1891. N. Gould, Double Event, p. 28. Ike’s knowledge of some of the bookmakers he had met in the old land led him to believe that hard-uppishness would scare any knight of the pencil away.
Hardware (or Hard), subs. (American).—Counterfeit coin.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v.
Hardware-bloke, subs. (thieves’).—A native of Birmingham; a Brum (q.v.).
Hardy-annual, subs. (Parliamentary).—A bill that is brought in every year, but never passed into law. Hence (journalistic), any stock subject.