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breadliner

breadliner noun: someone who lives at the poverty level.

Noun

breadliner (plural breadliners)

  1. Someone who lives at the poverty level.
    • After all the breadline makes breadliners.1975, Alex Baskin, The Unemployed (1930-1932), page 4
    • He looks vaguely charmed to meet a bona fide plebeian; a real-life breadliner.2009, Maria Roberts, Single Mother on the Verge

Forms of breadliner

pluralbreadliners

Origin of breadliner

From breadline + -er.

Questions about breadliner

What does breadliner mean?
Breadliner means someone who lives at the poverty level.
What part of speech is breadliner?
Breadliner is a noun.
What is the plural of breadliner?
The plural of breadliner is breadliners.

Words near breadliner in the dictionary

  1. breadknives
  2. breadless
  3. breadlessness
  4. breadlike
  5. breadline
  6. breadliner
  7. breadliners
  8. breadlines
  9. breadmaker
  10. breadmakers
  11. breadmaking

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