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☆ poor white

a white person, esp. one born or living in the S U.S., who lives in great poverty and ignorance: often an offensive term

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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