when ranking an individual out of 10, the poverty line separates the acceptable hookups (looked on favourably by your friendship group), from the people you should not even consider planting your seed in. If someone is above the poverty line they are objectively better than a 5/10 on the attractiveness scale.
"Fuck bro I got with this girl last night and she was below the poverty line, I feel violated".
"I fucked a guy last night, but don't worry he was above the poverty line".
"I fucked a guy last night, but don't worry he was above the poverty line".
by bigcocknoballs May 17, 2021

Man, I love White Claws, but I'm broke. We should get some poverty claws. They are cheaper and actually taste better.
by Sywm87 September 8, 2019

A term to discribe a persons lifestyle choice or mentality which is to live like their homeless, poor, poverty stricken like but in reality has money to spare.
The person who still :
*goes to the soup kitchen
*Wears raggy attire
*Refuses to bathe or do laundry
*Eats out of trash cans
*Eats super super cheaply
*Takes food possibly spoiled off the street home.
* takes stuff like a clepto home
Even if there bank accounts over hundreds of thousands, millions, billions
Normally you find this in a person whose was homeless beforehand
The person who still :
*goes to the soup kitchen
*Wears raggy attire
*Refuses to bathe or do laundry
*Eats out of trash cans
*Eats super super cheaply
*Takes food possibly spoiled off the street home.
* takes stuff like a clepto home
Even if there bank accounts over hundreds of thousands, millions, billions
Normally you find this in a person whose was homeless beforehand
My tia mary is so poverty minded she still collects anthing she finds on the street. She says every time she'll find a use for it.
by Theamazinggeek March 12, 2018

"Can we stop buying poverty paper now that we both got promoted?? We can afford the extra $3 every few months. I want that bougie shit. 3-ply minimum."
by 193856288572 July 27, 2022

by IlyasKallir November 23, 2022

by PartTimeLegend September 12, 2016

Poverty Belt is a growing term being used by people who live in the northeastern US to describe Central New York. Central New York is a geographical region of upstate New York which lies between the Catskill mountains and the Adirondacks. It is comprised of the cities Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Binghamton, Buffalo and Rochester (which is often referred to as Crotch-Chester). Common characteristics of this region which account for the sobriquet include scarcity of jobs, high unemployment, a shrinking population and a crumbling infrastructure. The "belt" part of the term comes from the way the aforementioned cities are horizontally situated close to the New York state thruway which runs from East to West through the middle part of the state.
-Where do you come from?
-I grew up in the Poverty Belt?
-Where's that?
-Central New York.
-Syracuse a tough place to make a living.
-Why's that.
-It's situated in the Poverty Belt.
-The what?
-I grew up in the Poverty Belt?
-Where's that?
-Central New York.
-Syracuse a tough place to make a living.
-Why's that.
-It's situated in the Poverty Belt.
-The what?
by Nite of Nat October 14, 2007
