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down-and-out

[doun-uhnd-out, -uhn]
–adjective
1. without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
2. without physical strength or stamina; disabled; incapacitated.
3. too physically weakened by repeated defeats to qualify as a competent professional boxer.
–noun
4. Also, down-and-outer. a person who is down-and-out.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism
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