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down-and-out   (down-and-outs plural )If you describe someone as down-and-out, you mean that they have no job and nowhere to live, and they have no real hope of improving their situation.  adj 
...a short story about a down-and-out advertising copywriter...  
  Down-and-out is also a noun.  (BRIT)  n-count