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See also: bread-line and bread line
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breadline (plural breadlines)
- A line of people waiting to receive food from a charity.
- Subsistence level.
- 1993, Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, p 249:
- […] and she wasn't used to cash, living on the breadline with a kid to bring up.
- 1993, Irvine Welsh: Trainspotting, p 249: