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"dirt poor" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to indicate extreme poverty. For example, "The family was so dirt poor that they had to beg for food."
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dirt poor
adjective
Alternative form of dirt-poor
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"We were dirt poor.
Almost everybody is dirt poor.
Gaza is dirt poor.
He'd also become dirt poor.
Mr Acosta's Cuban family was dirt poor.
Nepal isn't just poor, it's dirt poor.
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Bolivia's dirt poor peasants rejected Che and turned him in.
Beckett and Suzanne were dirt-poor.
In some industries, dirt-poor newcomers lower wages.
IMAGINE you run a dirt-poor agricultural economy.
Unlike its neighbour, Mississippi, it is not dirt-poor.
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