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stone broke en · ADJ

Etymology

From stone (“absolutely, completely”) + broke, probably under the influence of earlier expressions such as hard up.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, slang) Synonym of broke: without any money.
    • Naples wasn't exactly short of nobility... Some were stone broke. 1981, Olivier Bernier, chapter XII, in Pleasure & Privilege, page 197:
    • Stone-broke P... völlig zu Grunde gerichtet. 1886, Heinrich Baumann, Londinismen: Slang und Cant, page 196:

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stone-broke alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

stony broke

Synonyms

broke