Usually means: Surviving with minimal financial means.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word hand-to-mouth:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. hand-to-mouth: Merriam-Webster
  2. hand-to-mouth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. hand-to-mouth, hand-to-mouth: Collins English Dictionary
  4. hand-to-mouth: Vocabulary.com
  5. hand-to-mouth: Wordnik
  6. hand-to-mouth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hand-to-mouth: Wiktionary
  8. hand-to-mouth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hand-to-mouth: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. hand-to-mouth: Dictionary.com
  11. hand-to-mouth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. hand-to-mouth: FreeDictionary.org
  13. hand-to-mouth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. hand-to-mouth: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hand-to-mouth: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hand-to-mouth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hand-to-mouth: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hand-to-mouth: Idioms

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▸ adjective:  Involving immediate consumption (especially of food) with no provision for the future; having barely enough to survive, in poverty

Similar:
meagerly, meagre, hand to mouth, strapped for cash, hard up, strapped for money, cash-starved, penniless, dirt-poor, poor, more...

Opposite:
affluent, prosperous, comfortable, well-off, wealthy

Types:
snacking, grazing, nibbling, munching, biting, devouring, feasting, gnawing, more...

Phrases:
Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life, more...

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Similar:
meagerly, meagre, hand to mouth, strapped for cash, hard up, strapped for money, cash-starved, penniless, dirt-poor, poor, more...

Opposite:
affluent, prosperous, comfortable, well-off, wealthy

Types:
snacking, grazing, nibbling, munching, biting, devouring, feasting, gnawing, more...

Phrases:
Wooser's Hand-to-Mouth Life, more...



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