Definition of to the curb
to the curb
- Broke or without money.
Man. I was to the curb after I lost my job.
Last edited on May 17 2011. Submitted by John S. from Missouri, USA on Jun 21 1999.
- as low as you can go. Someone who is burned-out, someone who says mean, hateful things. A bad situation.
When she said that to me, it was to the curb.
- See more words with the same meaning: poor, poor person, homeless person.
Last edited on May 17 2011. Submitted by Tissie C. from Knoxville, TN, USA on Mar 07 2000.
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Other terms relating to 'poor, poor person, homeless person': | |
| Definitions include: useless. | |
| Definitions include: to be sad. | |
| Definitions include: to have no money. | |
| Definitions include: See also strap. | |
| Definitions include: to lose a lot or all of one's money. | |
| Definitions include: broke, out of money. | |
| Definitions include: having been kicked out of one's residence. | |
| Definitions include: without money; "broke". | |
| Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed". | |
| Definitions include: very broke. | |
| Definitions include: without money, or low on money. | |
| Definitions include: lower class people who live in trailer parks. | |
| Definitions include: a younger punk who is homeless or pretends to be homeless. | |
| Definitions include: From the stereotype that poor people (especially in the Midwestern United States) live in trailer-homes. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is of the red-neck, trailer trash, low morals variety. | |
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Other terms relating to 'curb': | |
| Definitions include: to accidentally hit or run over a curb while driving a motor vehicle. | |
| Definitions include: to beat up badly. | |
| Definitions include: to break up with your partner. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: Inclusive | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
| Definitions include: Meaning caring about everything. | |
| Definitions include: extremely popular. | |
| Definitions include: taking a passive role. | |
Other terms relating to 'to': | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: See nine to five. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: a declaration of victory or superiority. | |
| Definitions include: sex in which anal sex is immediately followed by fellatio. | |
| Definitions include: to revisit one's past. | |
| Definitions include: to go back to the beginning. | |
| Definitions include: extreme; "all out". | |
| Definitions include: to be vastly superior. | |
| Definitions include: to perform an activity before someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to be unintelligible. | |
| Definitions include: to do. | |
| Definitions include: more important things to deal with. | |
| Definitions include: to kill or destroy. | |
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