SURVIVAL, SURVIVE, SURVIVOR
NOUNS
1940 ► HUSTLE any means of survival, often providing little more then subsistence → US sl.
NOUNS, PERSON
1570 ► RELICT a survivor
1580 ► OUTLIVER a survivor → obs.
1970 ► HACKER one who perseveres in the face of challenges; a survivor → US sl.
VERBS
1000 ► BELEAVE to remain over, to survive, to be left in existence → obs.
1552 ► SUPERVIVE to live beyond or after another person, an event, etc.; to survive; to outlive → obs.
1884 ► SCRAPE ALONG → SCRAPE BY to survive; to carry on; to get by → Amer. sl.
20C.. ► LIVE ON THE SMELL OF AN OIL(Y) RAG to survive on the barest amount of food, money, etc. → Aust. sl.
1920 ► ACE to survive, esp. to survive intensive police interrogation → US sl.
1950 ► FALL ON ONE’S FEET to survive a difficult situation → sl.
1950 ► LAND ON ONE’S FEET to survive a difficult situation → sl.
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