hard stuff

noun

Slang.

1. strongly addictive drugs.

2. liquor with a high alcoholic content; hard liquor.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hard stuff¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Most of all, they needed to understand why we do all this hard stuff, and how to get through it — so I put together “My Mother’s Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving.”

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“I didn’t do hard stuff in front of him, just out of respect,” Sheen said.

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But it’s always beer — I don’t really drink any hard stuff.

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Any time you ever get better, you only grow through the hard stuff.

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Though really, I was more than eager to breeze through the hard stuff, “win” a few sessions by making my therapist crack a smile at my mental binder of self-critical jokes and then graduate onto the next thing.

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