Usually means: Extremely impoverished, lacking financial resources.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word dirt poor:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. dirt-poor: Merriam-Webster
  2. dirt poor: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dirt-poor: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dirt-poor, dirt-poor: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dirt-poor: Wordnik
  6. dirt poor: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. dirt-poor, dirt poor: Wiktionary
  8. dirt-poor: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. dirt poor: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. dirt-poor, dirt poor: Dictionary.com
  11. dirt-poor: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. dirt poor: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dirt-poor: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dirt Poor: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Dirt poor)

adjective:  Alternative form of dirt-poor [(idiomatic) In a condition of extreme poverty.]

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