/down"euhnd owt", -euhn/ , adj.
1. without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
2. without physical strength or stamina; disabled; incapacitated.
3. too physically weakened by repeated defeats to qualify as a competent professional boxer.
n.
4. Also, down-and-outer . a person who is down-and-out.
[ 1885-90, Amer. ]