down-and-outadjective
uk/ˌdaʊn.əˈnaʊt/us/ˌdaʊn.əˈnaʊt/C2 having no luck, no money, and no opportunities:
a down-and-out loser
Nobody loves you when you're down and out.
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Homelessness
- bag lady
- be of/have no fixed abode/address idiom
- derelict
- dosser
- fixed
- hobo
- hostel
- housing benefit
- mendicant
- on the streets idiom
- rootless
- rough
- sleep
- street
- street people
- tramp
- traveller
- vagabond
- vagrant
- waif
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Unemployment
down-and-out
noun [ C ] ukusUK
a person who has no money and no home