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down and out adjective

• (of a person) without money, a job, or a place to live; destitute.
• "a novel about being down and out in London"
Similar: destitute, poverty-stricken, impoverished, indigent, penniless, insolvent, impecunious, ruined, pauperized, without a penny to one's name, needy, in need, in want, hard up, on the breadline, hard-pressed, deprived, disadvantaged, distressed, badly off, beggarly, beggared, homeless, without a roof over one's head, on the streets, of no fixed abode/address, vagrant, living rough, unemployed, jobless, out of a job, workless, laid off, idle, between jobs, redundant, sleeping rough, on one's uppers, up against it, broke, flat broke, strapped (for cash), without a brass farthing, without a bean, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse, on one's beam-ends, stony broke, skint, boracic (lint), on the dole, signing on, resting, stone broke, without a red cent, on skid row, on the wallaby track, penurious,
Opposite: wealthy, well heeled,
• (of a boxer) knocked down and unable to continue fighting.

down and out noun

• a person without money, a job, or a place to live.
• "a hostel for down-and-outs"
Similar: poor person, pauper, indigent, bankrupt, insolvent, beggar, mendicant, homeless person, vagrant, tramp, drifter, derelict, vagabond, knight of the road, bird of passage, rolling stone, unemployed person, job-seeker, hobo, bagman, knockabout, overlander, sundowner, whaler, streety, have-not, dosser, bag lady, bum, bindlestiff, derro, outie, the poor, the destitute, the needy, the homeless, the unemployed,


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