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

noun
1.
A person who is destitute.
adjective
1.
Lacking resources (or any prospect of resources).





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... allowance for the depressing influence of the environment in which most of the down-and-out descendants in the degenerate line lived, the comparison between the normal and the abnormal lines from the same ancestor gives the most convincing eugenic evidence that has been discovered in the human race. Doubtless ...
— Sex-education - A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its - relation to human life • Maurice Alpheus Bigelow


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