The place where you learn that sometimes you "get beat upside the head just for livin'" Where your grandfather went to school. Can refer to old school.
"Gee mister, where'd you learn to fight like that?" "School of hard knocks, kid."
by tonk June 16, 2004
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What uneducated, dropout, depressed, (usually American) people who most often have a criminal record put as their education on social media because it’s less embarrassing than saying they couldn’t do something as simplistic as passing basic high school requirements.
Employment: Baller at Smokin Dope

Education: Studied thuggin at School of Hard Knocks
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Obviously where you are classically trained in rock!!!According to our masters, Tenacious D (Rock your Socks):
"That is Bach and it rocks
It's a rock block of Bach
That he learned in the school
Called the school of hard knocks!"
by Zeromus June 8, 2005
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Dr. Evils rap song from the movie 'Goldmember'.
Repeated throughout song in background:
"It's a hard knock life for us.
It's a hard knock life for us.
'Steada treated, we get tricked.
'Steada kisses, we get kicked.
It's a hard knock life."

The Rap:
"I didn't know how to be, no crib on MTV. God only knows. Got my mini-me in the GP, see how it goes. Evil's all that I see, you ask me my name?
D to the Rizzo, E to the Vizzo, I to the Lizzo. I'm a crazy Mother******,
y'all knew that. Austin caught me in the first act, it's all backwards, what's with that? So I'll make a prophesy from the dogs to the mini-me.
Gimme an escalay to two-way bling-bling on eBay. Domino, M***********.
Yeah. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. Uh-huh. It's for all my homies in Brouge. Uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh uh-huh. Ah, crystal, mymoto, a couple 'o bee-hotches, why not?
I gotta bust-a-move, drop-in bust-a-groove, feelin' fine.
Got an evil crew, Goldmember too, lick my nine. 'Till the I'll *** on my ********* brains out ***** I'll call and spooge in your ****. That's all, foshizzlemynizzle, y'all.
by person yo-yo March 6, 2005
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From the film Annie............. Basically it's shit being ginger and walking that scrotey dog. But in reality in 2012 - it's even worse thinking back to the bald headed fucker that adopted me & my dog! Dog = vets , myself = rape counsellor!
Cost me £80 fucking quid to sort my dog out and my bums still well sore - its a hard knock life!
by Annie the bloke with sore gary September 10, 2012
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Hard Knock Rock is a Luke Slater track from the album 'Wireless'
Hard Knock Rock is a fucken winner when it drops...
by Mark Walker October 6, 2007
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