Noun
Someone who lives at the poverty level.
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After all the breadline makes breadliners.
He looks vaguely charmed to meet a bona fide plebeian; a real-life breadliner.
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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.