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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) hand-to-mouth
offering or providing the barest livelihood or sustenance; precarious:
a hand-to-mouth existence.

Etymology: (1500–10)

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1. (adverb) hand-to-mouth(a)
providing only bare essentials
"a hand-to-mouth existence"

2. (adverb) hand to mouth
with barely enough money for immediate needs
"they lived form hand to mouth"

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