hard-on

See also: hardon, Hardon, and hard on

English

Alternative forms

• hardon
• hard on

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑɹdɑn/

• Audio (General Australian):

  (file)

Noun

hard-on (plural hard-ons)

1. (slang, vulgar) An erection of the penis.
   • 1997, Face/Off, spoken by Castor Troy (John Travolta):

     Look at this place! I'm in hell! I may never get a hard-on again!

2. (slang, vulgar, figurative) A desirous arousal based on a fascination or obsession.
   • 2012 August 27, Wayne Alan Brenner , “Capitalism, Weaponized: Sun Tzu Gets Cyberpunk’d”, The Austin Chronicle, section Daily Chronolog:

     ... and corporations duke it out with the kind of military tactics and apparatus that would give anybody who appreciates the Navy SEALs a hard-on.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:erect penis

Derived terms

• soft-on

Related terms

• wide-on

Translations

rigid state of the penis — see erection

erection of the penis

• Balinese: kenyang
• Bikol Central: latog
• Bulgarian: ерекция f (erekcija), надървяне n (nadǎrvjane)
• Catalan: trempera (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勃起 (zh) (bóqǐ), 硬 (zh) (yìng)

• Faroese: standing f
• Finnish: seisokki (fi), stondis (fi)
• French: gaule (fr) f, trique (fr) f
• Georgian: ამდგარი (amdgari)
• German: Ständer (de) m (slang)
• Greek:

  Ancient: στῦμα n (stûma)

• Indonesian: ngaceng
• Irish: adharc f
• Japanese: 勃起 (ja) (ぼっき, bokki)
• Javanese: ngaceng (jv)
• Latin: rigida f
• Norwegian: stå (no), ståpikk

  Nynorsk: stå (nn), ståpikk

• Portuguese: pau duro m, pau feito m (slang), tesão (pt) m or f
• Russian: стоя́к (ru) m (stoják) (slang)
• Spanish: tieso (es) m, empalmado (es) m, erección (es) f
• Sundanese: nyogong, celegeng
• Swedish: stånd (sv) n
• Welsh: codiad (cy) m

Anagrams

• Drohan, Hrodna, Rhonda, hadron