Extremely poor. Usually jobless, without resources and in some cases, homeless. Usually used to describe white trash rednecks and hillbillies.
"They know they can't afford that! They're about as poor as the hills!"
The act of playing up the your level of poverty verbally to excuse yourself or make yourself look worse off than you are. A person who does this is known as a poor-mouth or the act itself is called poor-mouths or poor-mouthing.
He poor-mouths that he couldn't pay the bill, when he just bought a brand new lexus.
1. Someone or some guy you feel sympathetic for.
2. Someone you feel sorry for.
"Poor guy lost everything."
Having an insanely high car payment that prevents you from doing anything that costs even a miniscule amount of money and prevents you from eating anything other than top ramen.
Friend: "hey man, want to go out tonight and score some ladies?"
Me: "nah, I'm car poor right now. I had to pay my $687 dollar car note." "I gotta go, I got to put some top ramen in the microwave before my power gets cut off".
a guy who's in such a shitty situation that you feel sorry for him, even if you hate his fucking guts.
Man#1: Saw you ex-wife down at the mall today.
Man#2: Really?
Man#1: Yeah, she was bitching out her new boyfriend.
Man#2: Better him than me. Poor bastard.
being relatively broke after purchasing a house or property due to the mortgage payments or other related expenses. although your total value and worth in assets is increasing by the mere fact that you are owning a property, your monthly liquid assets are fairly tight.
The mortgage will be twice that of my current rent, I'm going to be so house poor after the closing.
Irish expression.
Denotes a person who has recently been the recipent of misfortune.
Ah sure wasn't poor auld Fergal dumped by his girlfriend yesterday - ah the poor Crater!