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down-and-out

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down-and-out

  [doun-uhnd-out, -uhn]
Use down-and-out in a Sentence
–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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down-and-out or down and out   (doun'ənd-out', -ən-)
adj.  

  1. Lacking funds, resources, or prospects; destitute.

  2. Incapacitated; prostrate.

n.   also down-and-out·er (-ou'tər)
One who is down-and-out.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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