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Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble is land that is rocky or of poor quality, as in the term hardscrabble farm. It is often used as a euphemism for any sort of hard working or poverty, as in hardscrabble childhood. A number of towns use this name:
- Hardscrabble (Harrisburg), Pennsylvania, a former neighborhood in Midtown Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- Hardscrabble, California, now Ione, California
- Hardscrabble, Colorado, an extinct town in Colorado
- Hardscrabble, Illinois, now Streator, Illinois
- Hardscrabble, Indiana, a town in Indiana
- Hardscrabble, New York, now Farmingdale, New York
- Hardscrabble, Ohio
- Hardscrabble, Ontario, a village incorporated into the town of Hamilton, Ontario, today's Cobourg, Ontario, Canada
- Hardscrabble, Virginia, an unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia
- Hardscrabble, West Virginia, now Scrabble, West Virginia
- Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble, Wisconsin, now Hazel Green (town), Wisconsin
- Hard Scrabble and Snow Town, two African-American neighborhoods in 19th-century Providence, Rhode Island
- Hardscrabble Canyon, in the Wet Mountains, in Colorado
- Hardscrabble Pass, in Colorado
- Hardscrabble Peak, in Montana
- Hardscrabble River, the estuary of Wilson Stream, a small river in Washington County, Maine