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adjective; 1. Working as hard as you can and still barely getting by. 2. An area of land which can only support sparse, hearty plants and weeds.
1. The path to celebrity in any field is almost always a long, painful, hardscrabble road and most who start out never make it.
by asdfghjk January 22, 2006
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