hurting

hurting

1. informal Experiencing financial distress or difficulty. A lot of shops around here have really been hurting because of the new tax law.
2. colloquial Unappealing; in poor condition. This place is really hurting—you're going to have to do a ton of repairs and renovations.
See also: hurt
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hurt

1. mod. very ugly; damaged and ugly. (Streets. Similar to hurting.) That poor girl is really bad hurt.
2. mod. drug intoxicated. (Streets.) Gert was really hurt and nodding and drooling.

hurting

1. mod. very ugly; in pain from ugliness. (Similar to hurt.) That dog of yours is something to behold. It’s really hurting.
2. mod. seriously in need of something, such as a dose of drugs. (Drugs.) Gert is hurting. She needs something soon.
See also: hurt
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • hurt
  • hurtin
  • murder on
  • be murder on (someone or something)
  • up against it/the wall
  • up the wall
  • sigh about
  • sigh about (something)
  • at (one's) wits' end
  • at one's wit's end
References in periodicals archive
The players didn't really look like they are hurting.
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"When you are not doing well then it hurts, and this is hurting me."
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There is no question about it: this church has AIDS, a part of the body of the Anglican Communion is hurting. Will you learn how you can help?
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The survey question about suicidal thinking asked, "Have you had thoughts that you would be better off dead or of hurting yourself in some way for at least several days in the last two weeks?"
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And she was indeed hurting herself and risking many medical consequences.
Pain meets poison: The true story of how one teen huffed her way to rock bottom and almost died. (Close-Up: Inhalants)
He may think he is hurting in the pocket, it hurts us all in the pocket, but there is a class of people you are hurting more with this kind of disruption.
Letters
If I stop and walk, it stops hurting but as soon as I start back up, it hurts again.
The Clinic
''I can't talk for the other boys but I looked at the faces in the changing room and I could tell they were hurting.''
That defeat hurt us a lot says Howarth; RUGBY UNION: SPOTLIGHT ON THE WORLD CUP
The knee will begin hurting whenever the runner goes up the stairs or down, and sometimes in both cases.
It's anchors away to "runner's knee!"
Last but not least, it is hurting the Chinese people, who risk losin their most-favored trading partner status with this country if they do not act quickly to foil the machinations of their homegrown CD pirates, who are certainly one Motley Crue.
Dya, dya, dya ya wanna danz?
Dan Margulies, executive director of the Community Housing Improvement Program noted with increases in the Bronx and Brooklyn it is tragic how our tax policy is hurting affordable housing.
City lowers values 'too little too late'
He added: "We are hurting as international sportsmen, proud sportsmen who have achieved a hell of a lot over the last four or five years."
Pietersen 'hurting' but won't quit; CRICKET
Everybody is in this together, and everybody has been hurting this week.
Football: Irish chief says 'hurt' fired up Staunton; FOCUS ON EURO 2008 QUALIFIERS
If you don't tell her, how will she know she's hurting your feelings?
Ouch, that's smart! Seems your BFF is "gifted and talented." So where does that leave you?