Poverty Sticks

Another term for matches, derived from being too poor to afford a lighter.

Laura: Can I borrow your lighter please?
Sarah: I only have poverty sticks...

by LauzLou July 14, 2011

poverty pimp

Any self appointed minority leader, who extols the perpetual poorness of their ethnicity, yet is quite well off stemming from their efforts. Usually a Reverend of some unknown church. Marches at the drop of a hat to mug for the cameras.
Uses White guilt to gain credibilty, money, and influence.
Are usually racists themselves.

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are flaming Poverty Pimps.

by J Sin June 22, 2006

Poverty Swagger

A person who contains swagger in a low income neighborhood, usually wearing a wife beater, athletic shorts, unvelcroed high-tops.

Look at that broke hoe's poverty swagger, he's poor.

by chaswill September 26, 2010

Poverty Team

A team that routinely sucks horse ass. They could have the most stacked roster is the history of their sport but still miss the playoffs and go completely defeated or even worse reach the playoffs but choke in a abominable atrocious way.

28-3 Atlanta Falcons

2008 Lions

2017 Browns

Browns entire history since 3,000,000 BC

Tony Romo and Dak Prescott's era Cowboys are examples of poverty teams

by HughJass1986 July 23, 2023

Poverty franchise

It is when a sports franchise team performs poorly on a habitual basis. They rack up losing records, wasting young talent and draft picks. It is also a monetary matter.

1. — Do you think the Detroit Pistons will make the Playoffs by next year?
2. — Heck no! They’re a poverty franchise.

by AyoJelani June 28, 2023

poverty-spec

Typically used when talking about a new car because you, the owner, cheaped out on the options list! Example? The 3-series BMW with the smallest engine, 15 inch plain tires, bottom-end awful sound system with no auxiliary input, no navigation, zero-additional-options is a "poverty-spec" BMW.

Can be used to refer to almost any car...

...Note this does not apply to ultra high end cars that are AWESOME regardless of options. What kind of car does not exist in poverty-spec? Eg. Porsche 911 Turbo. Opinions may vary.

Dude, why'd your dad get that brand-new poverty-spec Corolla? For that $10,000 he could've gotten a nice fully-equipped Lexus on the used market!

by Danny512_89 June 27, 2011

poverty porn

When people post videos of themselves helping impoverished people for clout, validation, internet points, or money.

"Joey is kinda despicable, he posts poverty porn to youtube, and it makes him $1k in ad revenue per month."
"Becky tipped a $100 bill the other day, which was nice, but she posted it to TikTok as poverty porn and now I don't respect her"

by r i c o l a January 12, 2022