down-and-outer
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down-and-out
or down and out (doun′ənd-out′, -ən-)adj.
1. Lacking funds, resources, or prospects.
2. Incapacitated; prostrate.
n. also down-and-out·er (-ou′tər)
One who is down-and-out.
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down-and-outer
nounAn impoverished person:
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