Artist

n.

Heard in Limerick

A person who is unemployed and claiming social welfare payments.

Hes a goverment artist

Posh English

The gentleman is gainfully unemployed and subsisting upon state benefits.

Related terms

• Government artistA person who draws the dole, i.e. lives on social welfare payments.
• Dole banditA person living on social welfare payments.
• Rock n rollSocial welfare payments, the dole.
• ScratcherOne's bed. Also: social welfare payments.
• De socialGovernment welfare payments.
• DoleThe state pension or social welfare payment.