- A person may go hard if they are trying with much effort, ether in sports or in any everyday endeavor. If someone is hard, they are extremely tough or resilient.
hard
adjective; zero derivation semantic change
an intensifier, being or doing something to an extreme
Etymology : zero derivation of "hard"
Source : "you guys went hard for 60 minutes" (Jeff Ware, 10/2010)
Last modified: 3 December 2011