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Skint

//skɪnt// adj, slang

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang

    "There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager."

  2. 2
    skinned slang
Adjective
  1. 1
    lacking funds wordnet

Etymology

The "penniless" sense is attested since 1925 and is derived from a variant of skinned Note also the phrase skin a flint (“go to extreme lengths for the sake of gain or economy”), from the brittleness and hardness of flint which makes it almost impossible to remove just its skin without shattering it.

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