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BREAD LINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bread line mean?
• BREAD LINE (noun)
The noun BREAD LINE has 1 sense:
1. a queue of people waiting for free food
Familiarity information: BREAD LINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A queue of people waiting for free food
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
bread line; breadline
Hypernyms ("bread line" is a kind of...):
queue; waiting line (a line of people or vehicles waiting for something)
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