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Down-and-out

noun

A person who is destitute.

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"Down-and-out" Quotes from Famous Books

... soft-shaded lamp, its two-toned rug, its Jacobean chairs, its magazine-laden cathedral oak table, its pot of bright flowers making a smart touch of color in the somber richness of the room, it was no place for the shabby, the down-and-out, the cringing, the rusty, ...

— Personality Plus - Some Experiences of Emma McChesney and Her Son, Jock • Edna Ferber

... as eight bells of the evening, Pete, the tough factory hand, and Tim, the down-and-out hatter, were still playing seven-up at the dirty fo'c'sle table, while McGarver, under-boss of the Morris cattle gang, lay in his berth, heavily studying the game and blowing sulphurous fumes of Lunch Pail Plug Cut tobacco up ...

— Our Mr. Wrenn - The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man • Sinclair Lewis

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