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hardscrabble \HARD-skrab-uhl\, adjective: 1. Yielding a bare or meager living with great labor or difficulty. 2. Marked by poverty. I remember it being green and humid, nothing like this hardscrabble land. -- Elmore Leonard, Cuba Libre Most inhabitants scratched out a living from hardscrabble... Sign in to see full entry.