broke
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1.8
- adjective
- /broʊk/
- Informal
:
sin dinero
- For "the best PI in Essex County," I was as broke as hell.
There are a lot of broke people who are starving.
- There are a lot of broke people who are starving.
- Because most people are broke, like most people are poor.
- They just clapping and I know he's broke as shit back there.
- If I leave this job, I'm going to be broke, no paycheck.
- The world's going broke because of this collusion.
- And so this whole he's broke and let me just work with him.
- I was a fat, lazy immigrant, foreigner broke human animal.
- And then five years later she called me broke or saying she was broke.
Examples
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So that whole time I was broke, I had no money.
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When Wilde crept back to Paris, he was broke, miserable, lonely, and desperate.
Academic text (2011) -
So, you know, really, really broke or really, really poor.
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Making money, but we are broke so we have to find another way.
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I mean, we were broke and in school, so.
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Yeah, and like Dad used to say, 'We may be broke, but we're never poor.'
Fiction book (1993) -
There are a lot of broke people who are starving.
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I need the diamonds, because I need the money, because I'm broke.
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I paid for my classes and my books and my Adderall and now I'm broke.
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After paying all my bills this month, I found myself completely broke.
Synonyms
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1.0
Having little money or possessions
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6.2
People or places that have very little money and few things they need
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7.1
A person who has lost all their money and savings
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5.1
Very poor and needing help to live
3
7.0
Completely without something that is needed or wanted
2
9.9
Very poor and having almost no money
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8.6
Having no money at all
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9.9
Having little or no money
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5.4
Having no money to spend
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9.9
Having little or no money
1
9.3
With no money at all
1
7.6
Having almost no money
Having no money to pay for things
A person who has little money to pay basic costs
Having almost no money or things
Very poor with no money at all
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Offensive
A way of living with very little money, using cheap choices to get by
How Poor
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word broke comes from the idea of being broken, which means 'ruined' or 'not whole'. It is from the same root as break, so to be broke is to be 'without money', like something broken that no longer works.