Breadliner
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Breadliner is a noun meaning Someone who lives at the poverty level.
Meaning
Someone who lives at the poverty level.
Example Sentences
After all the breadline makes breadliners.
He looks vaguely charmed to meet a bona fide plebeian; a real-life breadliner.
Hannah Hill Chaplin's precipitous decline from headliner to breadliner was a devastating defeat for the formerly “light-hearted and gay” music hall comedienne, better known to her fans and admirers as "that charming little chanter, Lillie Harley" — or Lily Harley, the usual spelling.
Word Forms
- breadliners
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include liner, beggar, pauper, penny-a-liner, down-and-outer, slumdweller.
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