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used to emphasize that someone or something has no money at all: A spokesman said that the credit crunch had left the company " flat broke". go for broke. to risk everything in the hope of having great success.
adjective. : penniless. Synonyms. Adjective. beggared. beggarly. destitute. dirt-poor. down-and-out. famished. hard up. impecunious. impoverished. indigent. necessitous. needful. needy. pauperized.
Broke definition: a simple past tense of break. . See examples of BROKE used in a sentence.
3 meanings: 1. → the past tense of break 2. informal having no money; bankrupt 3. → See go for broke.... Click for more definitions.
BROKE definition: 1. to not have any money: 2. to lose all your money and have to end your business 3. past tense of…. Learn more.
Definition of broke adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. Broke is the past tense of break. 2. adjective [v-link ADJ] If you are broke, you have no money. [informal] What do you mean, I've got enough money? I'm as broke as you are. Synonyms: penniless, short, ruined, bust [informal] More Synonyms of broke. 3. See to go broke. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.
• We're always broke at the end of the month. • Naturally I am broke, or almost. flat/stony broke • If you removed the future earnings, Baker told jurors, O. J. Simpson is flat broke. • The treating, perhaps fortunately, cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke.
Define broke. broke synonyms, broke pronunciation, broke translation, English dictionary definition of broke. v. 1. Past tense of break. 2. Nonstandard A past participle of break. adj. Informal 1. Bankrupt. 2. Lacking funds: "an organization that gets increasingly...
to drop, turn, or change direction down sharply and considerably: [ no object] Stock prices broke quickly at the New York exchange. [ ~ + object] The pitcher broke his curveball over the plate and the batter swung at it.
