Definitions for down-and-out

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Spelling: [doun-uh nd-out, -uh n]

IPA: /ˈdaʊn əndˈaʊt, -ən/

Down-And-Out is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 195 anagrams from letters in down-and-out (--addnnootuw).

Definitions for down-and-out

noun

1. Also, down-and-outer. a person who is down-and-out.

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.

Origin of down-and-out

An Americanism dating back to 1885-90

Examples for down-and-out

I'm on my uppers for fair this time—eligible for the down-and-out club.

Had about as much sympathy for a down-and-out, Steele did, as you'd find milk in a turnip.

It is Ma who refuses to abandon the down-and-out Wilson family even though their company may slow the journey west.

And the speculators on the inside graduate to the down-and-out class if they play long enough.

The Oscars also like down-and-out characters and misunderstood geniuses, both of which tend to beget low-talkers.

But that was nothin' to the down-and-out slump I found him in next night, when I goes around for my writin' lesson and so on.

Or by bold combinations: down-and-out, up-state, flat-footed.

A man's a millionaire to-day and a member of the down-and-out club to-morrow.

But their impact on their down-and-out political parties may turn out to be nearly identical.

Of course Garrison had been to the dogs during the past year—what down-and-out jockey has not gone there?