down-and-out
adjective
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2
: physically weakened or incapacitated
down-and-out
noun
or down-and-outer
Examples of down-and-out in a Sentence
I'm over the flu, but I still feel down-and-out
a soup kitchen where the down-and-out daily line up for a hot meal
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While the aggressively noirish script (by Kubrick and his friend Howard Sackler, who had also written Fear and Desire) about a down-and-out boxer who falls for a gangster’s moll sometimes comes off like a parody, Kubrick is clearly coming into his own here as an artist.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs — Coming off their first loss since September, the Broncos get a down-and-out Chiefs team playing its third-string quarterback.
—Jim Reineking, USA Today, 25 Dec. 2025
The feature is based on the 2018 documentary of the same name that told the story of a down-and-out fighter who becomes involved with one of the country’s top youth boxing programs.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
Shroud killed Robert’s dad and now the down-and-out hero is on the warpath.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
And those Berger hallmarks are certainly on display in the new one, a drama about a dandy named Lord Doyle, a down-and-out con man and gambling addict on the brink of a breakdown in the kitschy gaming hub of Macau.
—Glenn Whipp, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Fraser stars as a down-and-out American actor adrift in Tokyo in Rental Family, which was filmed in Japan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Gardin showed us a country where the medieval and the modern, the down-and-out and la dolce vita, seemed to coexist.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Befitting the down-and-out semis, Analog Devices put up good numbers, causing a headlong rush into internet of things (IoT).
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
Denver Broncos at Kansas City Chiefs — Coming off their first loss since September, the Broncos get a down-and-out Chiefs team playing its third-string quarterback.
—Jim Reineking, USA Today, 25 Dec. 2025
The feature is based on the 2018 documentary of the same name that told the story of a down-and-out fighter who becomes involved with one of the country’s top youth boxing programs.
—Aaron Couch, HollywoodReporter, 25 Nov. 2025
Shroud killed Robert’s dad and now the down-and-out hero is on the warpath.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2025
And those Berger hallmarks are certainly on display in the new one, a drama about a dandy named Lord Doyle, a down-and-out con man and gambling addict on the brink of a breakdown in the kitschy gaming hub of Macau.
—Glenn Whipp, Boston Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
Fraser stars as a down-and-out American actor adrift in Tokyo in Rental Family, which was filmed in Japan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 18 Sep. 2025
Gardin showed us a country where the medieval and the modern, the down-and-out and la dolce vita, seemed to coexist.
—Max Norman, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
Befitting the down-and-out semis, Analog Devices put up good numbers, causing a headlong rush into internet of things (IoT).
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 24 Aug. 2025
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“Down-and-out.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/down-and-out. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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