Definition of be on stamps

on stamps

adjective

• broke, out of money. Relates to having to use food stamps to eat.

  I'm so broke, I'm almost on stamps!

  • See more words with the same meaning: poor, poor person, homeless person.

  Last edited on Mar 14 2013. Submitted by Patrick M. from Tulsa, OK, USA on Nov 07 1999.

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Other terms relating to 'poor, poor person, homeless person':
bag lady	Definitions include: a homeless woman.
trailer park trash	Definitions include: lower class people who live in trailer parks.
bum	Definitions include: to be sad.
lose (one's) shirt	Definitions include: to lose a lot or all of one's money.
gritter	Definitions include: a person who is of the red-neck, trailer trash, low morals variety.
trailer trash	Definitions include: From the stereotype that poor people (especially in the Midwestern United States) live in trailer-homes.
gutter punk	Definitions include: a younger punk who is homeless or pretends to be homeless.
to the curb	Definitions include: Broke or without money.
*ss out	Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed".
belt-tightening	Definitions include: an instance of tightening (one's) belt.
broke d*ck	Definitions include: useless.
tapped out	Definitions include: without money.
broke as a joke	Definitions include: very broke.
strapped for cash	Definitions include: without money, or low on money.
stig	Definitions include: See chav.
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Other terms relating to 'on':
accidentally on purpose	Definitions include: seemingly accidental but with a secret motive.
a little on the side	Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner.
a lot on (one's) plate	Definitions include: See on (one's) plate.
as much use as a handbrake on a canoe	Definitions include: useless.
as useless as tits on a boar hog	Definitions include: absolutely futile; pointless, worthless, inept or absurd; good-for-nothing or idiotic.
back on (one's) feet	Definitions include: doing better after an unfavorable event.
back on pipe	Definitions include: returned to one's meth or crack addiction.
bag on	Definitions include: to insult for fun; "make fun of".
bail on	Definitions include: to leave (a relationship) or abandon.
ball on	Definitions include: to attempt to attract verbally; "hit on".
bang on	Definitions include: to test something before it is released or presented.
barge in on	Definitions include: See barge in.
beast on	Definitions include: used to describe a person that is angry and is scolding at someone.
be in on	Definitions include: to be involved with.
be like flies on sh*t	Definitions include: to be present in large numbers.
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Other terms relating to 'stamp':
food stamp	Definitions include: a person who feels like the world owes them a favor.
green stamps	Definitions include: money.
million-dollar body with a food stamp face	Definitions include: a person with a very ugly face but a very sexy body has a "million-dollar body with a food stamp face".
mushroom stamp	Definitions include: to slap someone with one's penis.
rubber stamp	Definitions include: to approve without debate or significant thought.
stamp	Definitions include: The act of seminating a voluminous and forceful amount of semen on someone's face.
tramp stamp	Definitions include: The tattoo a woman has inked at the small of her back just above the tailbone.
yuppie food stamp	Definitions include: A Twenty Dollar Bill - what comes out of an ATM.

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