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  1. waifs and strays: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. waifs and strays: Merriam-Webster
  3. waifs and strays: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. Waifs and Strays: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Waifs and Strays: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. waifs and strays: Wiktionary

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  1. waifs and strays: Idioms

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▸ noun:  Homeless people or animals.

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homeless, orphan, displaced person, Street children, pariahdom, surrogacy, only, welfarism, great unwashed, lay figure, more...

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homeless, orphan, displaced person, Street children, pariahdom, surrogacy, only, welfarism, great unwashed, lay figure, more...



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