skint
pronunciation
How to pronounce skint in British English:
UK [skɪnt]
How to pronounce skint in American English:
US [skɪnt]
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- Adjective:
- lacking funds
Word Origin
- skint (adj.)
- "broke, out of money," 1925, slang variant of skinned, past participle of skin (v.).
Example
- 1. Rich-world governments , many of which have record levels of debt , are skint .
- 2. I get paid each friday , and by tuesday I 'm always skint .
- 3. They skint the door down forward I could take requests .
- 4. We 're not scaled up for this . We 're skint .
- 5. The dreadful tread on the meadow skint the deadly deadlock .