dolee
/ˌdəʊˈliː/ /ˈdəʊliː/originally and chiefly US
noun
A person who receives a government benefit or allowance; especially one who receives unemployment benefit.
Origin
1980s; earliest use found in San Diego Tribune. Either a variant of doley, or independently from dole + -ee.
- death moth
- death notice
- death-obsessed
- death-or-glory
- death penalty
- death penny
- death pile
- deathplace
- death rate
- death rattle
- death ray
- death ring
- death roll
- death rope
- death row
- death's door
- death sentence
- death's face
- death's gate
- death's head
- death's head hawkmoth
- death's head monkey
- death's head moth
- death's herb
- death-sick