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What does skint mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word skint? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (slang, Britain, Australia) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
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After years spent as a skint student with only a few pounds to my name, I learnt to sniff out the best deals behind the bar.
He might have got some money because we were both skint and he bought me a cup of tea and he played on the fruit machine at that cafe.
Whenever you go to the council asking for new books and equipment they say they are skint but they can find money for this kind of thing.
A thief had to empty his pockets out in the court dock to prove he was skint.
Had a lovely tea with Major and Mini Kira the other night, we are all very skint indeed but thank the lord for pasta bake and chicken nuggets!
Being students, we were always skint and wanted the easiest, most flexible, and most profitable form of income we could get.

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