Of low quality.
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With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
We were so poor that we couldn't afford shoes.
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(attributive, _, only) Worthy of pity.
Durable goods can be cost-effective but make great disease vectors, and disposables like syringes and needles can be a problem in the poorest places, where there's desperate need of vaccines for diseases like polio. That's where the UCSD…
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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