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hard word
noun▶ put the hard word on- to ask someone for sexual intercourse AUSTRALIA, 1936
- Girls like Gertie Sparks and Polly Tanner would give a bloke the frozen mit if he tried to do a line with them–let alone have the audacity to put the hard word on them. — Norman Lindsay, Halfway to Anywhere, p. 57, 1947
- At seventeen, I became a student at Melbourne University, where pretty soon I had the “hard word” put on me. — Wendy Bacon, Uni Sex, p. 45, 1972
- Went out with Nigel. He put the hard word on me. But I said no because I didn’t want to be unfaithful to John. — John Birmingham, He Died With a Felafel in his Hand, p. 101, 1994
- to make a fervent request AUSTRALIA, 1918
- Publishers have been putting the hard word on me for yonks to spill the beans[.] — Barry Humphries, The Traveller’s Tool, p. 7, 1985
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