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Down-and-out   /daʊn-ənd-aʊt/   Listen
Down-and-out

noun
1.
A person who is destitute.






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"Down-and-out" Quotes from Famous Books



... ensuing few months he moved from pillar to post, trying various ventures and succeeding with none. The fates seemed against him. In St. Louis, whither he had drifted, he was regarded with open scorn as, what we would now designate, a "down-and-out." One reason for his poor success lay in the fact that he was a Northerner, and the city was seething with talk of secession. The clouds of Civil War were already gathering, and men began to distrust ...
— Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers • J. Walker McSpadden



Words linked to "Down-and-out" :   poor person, unsuccessful, have-not



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