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skint::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
`skint' is a British slang term.
Examples of skint
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The OFT is a waste of time and an unnecessary expense when the country is skint.
From the guardian.co.uk
Skint Skiverton can't afford any scouts so wants help from his 2,000 followers.
From the web.orange.co.uk
And I see that Spain has tried to cut FiTs retrospectively because it is skint.
From the guardian.co.uk
Considering I'm skint most of the time, this is something that needs to change.
From the guardian.co.uk
I want to make music people find fun and that helps them forget about being skint.
From the metro.co.uk
Being skint and living from hand to mouth didn't get in the way of my social life.
From the guardian.co.uk
The slippers have saved me on many occasions when I've been skint but really hungry.
From the guardian.co.uk
Wollstonecraft was skint, had an illegitimate baby, and was pretending to be married.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Many fellows would previously eke out a living as poets or other skint professionals.
From the economist.com
- Broke: lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"
- Skint Records is a Brighton based dance music record label owned by JC Reid, Tim Jeffery and Damian Harris. It was created as a sublabel of Loaded Records, also founded by Reid and Jeffery. The label was, together with Wall of Sound, a leader in the big beat music scene of the mid to late 1990s.
- Skint is a BBC documentary series centred on the lives of the homeless population of Birmingham, UK. Despite criticism on the exploitation of the programme's subjects, a new series of Skint aired on BBC One at 22:45 on 20 December 2007.
- (The Skints) The Skints are a reggae/dub/punk band from London, United Kingdom .
- Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke
- Adj. The position of having no money. I often find myself completely skint, which puzzles me. I spent a lot of my own time writing this dictionary primarily for Americans who, as the rest of the world knows, have money positively dripping off them. ...
- A term used often (in Twillingate especially), which means "very good" or "excellent"
- Having no money; broke.
