broke
/brəʊk
/verb
past (and archaic past participle) of break1.
adjective [predicative] informal
Having completely run out of money: he went broke owing two million pounds...
- Four years ago, my grandmother was on her way to post some money to my sister, a broke single mum.
- Talk of the town is that the way the money is being spent they might be broke by next month.
- It is also true that I have no ideas at all about it and would only have any if I were feeling very broke.
Synonyms
penniless, moneyless, bankrupt, insolvent, poor, poverty-stricken, impoverished, impecunious, penurious, indigent, in penury, needy, destitute, ruined, down and out, without a penny to one's name, without two pennies to rub together
informal stony broke, flat broke, on one's uppers, cleaned out, strapped (for cash), on one's beam-ends, bust, hard up, without a brass farthing, without a bean, without a sou, as poor as a church mouse
British informal skint, without a shot in one's locker
British rhyming slang boracic (lint)
North American informal stone broke, without a red cent
Phrases
go for broke
if it ain't broke, don't fix it
Rhymes
- porcini
- porcinity
- porcupinal
- porcupine
- porcupine crab
- porcupine disease
- porcupine fish
- porcupine grass
- porcupine-like
- porcupine man
- Porcupine River
- porcupine roller
- porcupine skin
- porcupine wood
- porcupinish
- porcupiny
- pore
- pore area
- pore-like
- porencephalia
- porencephalic
- porencephalous
- porencephalus
- porencephaly
- pore pressure