Meaning of breadliner | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who lives at the poverty level.

Examples

“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.”

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