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skint
adjective
having little or no money, penniless UK, 1925
Figurative application of conventional “skinned”.- Perce was skint when Peter tried to put the touch on him, but he had a nice little job all lined up. — Charles Raven, Underworld Nights, p. 44, 1956
- [“]The only civilised thing about it,” the Dean continued, “is that they let you sit here, when you’re skint”. — Colin MacInnes, Absolute Beginners, 1959
- My old man don’t earn much / In fact he’s flippin’ skint. — Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man’s a Dustman, 1960
- I was dead skint and it’s bleedin’ awful being broke[.] — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 85, 1964
- “And you, my son, are potless.” “Slightly embarrassed.” “Skint.” — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 8, 1984
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 105, 1996
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