dead-end kid

A troubled kid, typically a male, who is seen as having limited future prospects. I'm worried about Mary dating a dead-end kid—what if he interferes with her plans to go off to college?

dead-end kid

n. a youth with no future, usually a male. Frank was a dead-end kid from the day he was born.

See also: kid

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

See also:

I kid you not
handle (someone or something) with gloves
handle with gloves
kid
store
from the wrong side of the tracks
from/on the wrong side of the tracks
broad shoulders, have
have broad shoulders
broad shoulders

References in periodicals archive

Andrew was not some dead-end kid who roamed the urban jungles by day and raved through the night.

Record View; No glamour in a child's coffin

Vitale also carefully explains how the stereotype of Italian American boxers as "semiliterate, anti-intellectual raging dead-end kids" (4)--a product not just of Stallone's endearing and De Niro's (as La Motta) transcendent acting performances but also of earlier films like Kid Galadad (1937), Golden Boy (1939), and the 1956 Graziano biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me that cemented the image of the Italian American as a tough-fisted but simple-minded palooka--obscures a more complicated and interesting cultural history.

Rolando Vitale. "The Real Rockys: A History of the Golden Age of Italian Americans in Boxing, 1900-1955."

They have already gone from dead-end kids to a disciplined unit of young men who fight for each other and can see a future in Cambodia's newly-formed professional league.

A true champ; RecordView

Mr Benton pointed to the "magnificent" success of Sefton education bosses in turning around sink school, boosting pass rates, curbing truancy and giving a future to youngsters who might otherwise become dead-end kids.

Schools may be Blair's last stand; He's our man about the House - in London

Some of the nation's sharpest pens slice and dice the single-season homer champ as only they can, from the laugh-out-loud funny (one Canadian cartoonist portrays an unexpected, wagging side effect of steroids) to the simply shake-your-head sad (dead-end kids lining up at a pharmacy before they play sandlot baseball).

Baseball and fish

A writer in World War II observed that the Marine Corps seemed to be made up of a combination of dead-end kids and boys named Percival.

Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War

A former teen hustler himself, JT LeRoy was once just like the dead-end kids he writes about.

Out but not down

Wallace's play about the ultimately tragic relationship between a pair of dead-end kids evolves gradually from a slightly ponderous slice of Depression-era life to an entirely pretentious meditation on any number of ill-defined themes.

THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK

A pity she's taking son Jamie, whom Joseph Gilgun has made into one of the most delightfully deadpan, dead-end kids on the box.

Hoo-Wray! Emma bounces back; Lanning on the Box

Even on Beavis and Butt-head, any fair reading is that their violent acts are committed by vacuous losers, Dead-End Kids for the '90s, and in that context violence is not "glorified" or intended to be a model for behavior.

Facts about fiction: in defense of TV violence

For example The Dead-End Kids, a popular movie series of the post-Depression era, portrays a gang of young men roaming New York's Bowery.

Western hero or gangster: the U.S. dilemma

A sensation when it opened in London more than a year ago, this loud and graphic tale of dead-end kids owes more than a little of its notoriety to a title that even New York's daily newspapers won't print in full.

Shopping and Fucking

词组	dead-end kid
释义	dead-end kid dead-end kid A troubled kid, typically a male, who is seen as having limited future prospects. I'm worried about Mary dating a dead-end kid—what if he interferes with her plans to go off to college? See also: kid Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. dead-end kid n. a youth with no future, usually a male. Frank was a dead-end kid from the day he was born. See also: kid McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions See also: I kid you not handle (someone or something) with gloves handle with gloves kid store from the wrong side of the tracks from/on the wrong side of the tracks broad shoulders, have have broad shoulders broad shoulders References in periodicals archive Andrew was not some dead-end kid who roamed the urban jungles by day and raved through the night. Record View; No glamour in a child's coffin Vitale also carefully explains how the stereotype of Italian American boxers as "semiliterate, anti-intellectual raging dead-end kids" (4)--a product not just of Stallone's endearing and De Niro's (as La Motta) transcendent acting performances but also of earlier films like Kid Galadad (1937), Golden Boy (1939), and the 1956 Graziano biopic Somebody Up There Likes Me that cemented the image of the Italian American as a tough-fisted but simple-minded palooka--obscures a more complicated and interesting cultural history. Rolando Vitale. "The Real Rockys: A History of the Golden Age of Italian Americans in Boxing, 1900-1955." They have already gone from dead-end kids to a disciplined unit of young men who fight for each other and can see a future in Cambodia's newly-formed professional league. A true champ; RecordView Mr Benton pointed to the "magnificent" success of Sefton education bosses in turning around sink school, boosting pass rates, curbing truancy and giving a future to youngsters who might otherwise become dead-end kids. Schools may be Blair's last stand; He's our man about the House - in London Some of the nation's sharpest pens slice and dice the single-season homer champ as only they can, from the laugh-out-loud funny (one Canadian cartoonist portrays an unexpected, wagging side effect of steroids) to the simply shake-your-head sad (dead-end kids lining up at a pharmacy before they play sandlot baseball). Baseball and fish A writer in World War II observed that the Marine Corps seemed to be made up of a combination of dead-end kids and boys named Percival. Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America, and the New Face of American War A former teen hustler himself, JT LeRoy was once just like the dead-end kids he writes about. Out but not down Wallace's play about the ultimately tragic relationship between a pair of dead-end kids evolves gradually from a slightly ponderous slice of Depression-era life to an entirely pretentious meditation on any number of ill-defined themes. THE TRESTLE AT POPE LICK CREEK A pity she's taking son Jamie, whom Joseph Gilgun has made into one of the most delightfully deadpan, dead-end kids on the box. Hoo-Wray! Emma bounces back; Lanning on the Box Even on Beavis and Butt-head, any fair reading is that their violent acts are committed by vacuous losers, Dead-End Kids for the '90s, and in that context violence is not "glorified" or intended to be a model for behavior. Facts about fiction: in defense of TV violence For example The Dead-End Kids, a popular movie series of the post-Depression era, portrays a gang of young men roaming New York's Bowery. Western hero or gangster: the U.S. dilemma A sensation when it opened in London more than a year ago, this loud and graphic tale of dead-end kids owes more than a little of its notoriety to a title that even New York's daily newspapers won't print in full. Shopping and Fucking
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