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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.
    • 2011, Mark Lavorato, Believing Cedric:
      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.
  2. (colloquial, uncountable) A prison term.
    Jack got hard time for his part in the robbery.

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