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poor man's

adj

Definitions

  1. Cheaper than, simpler than, a low-quality version of, or inferior to.

    • Saxon is author of the popular terrorist manual The Poor Man's James Bond, a handbook containing recipes for bombs, napalm and tear gas.
    • People do not want 'second best' self-help schemes, which are regarded as a poor man's version of the market.
    • Much as the creators of Usenet called it “the poor man's ARPANET,” bulletin boards were a poor man's FTP.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for poor man's. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA