Home › Words › H › hardwayhardwayhardway means A surname.EtymologyFrom hard + way, i.e. the difficult way to achieve something.nameA surname.nounA bet that is won only if the desired total is rolled as a pair of two of the same value, e.g. 6 from 3 and 3 rather than 4 and 2.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).