broke

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) enPR: brōk, IPA: /brəʊk/, X-SAMPA: /br@Uk/
• (GenAm) enPR: brōk, IPA: /broʊk/, X-SAMPA: /broUk/

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• Rhymes: -əʊk

Adjective

broke (comparative more broke, superlative most broke)

1. (informal) Lacking money; bankrupt
2. (informal) Broken.

Synonyms

• boracic (UK rhyming slang), skint (UK slang), stony-broke (UK slang')
• See also Wikisaurus:impoverished

Translations

lacking money; bankrupt

• Breton: kras
• Bulgarian: разорен (bg) (razoren) m
• Dutch: blut (nl)
• Finnish: rahaton, auki (slang), persaukinen (somewhat vulgar)
• French: fauché (fr)/fauchée (fr), à sec (fr) (invariable), (formally) désargenté (fr)/désargentée (fr)
• German: pleite (de)

• Italian: al verde (invariable)
• Japanese: すっからかん (ja) (sukkarakan)
• Norwegian: blakk (no)
• Russian: разорившийся (ru) (razorivšijsja)
• Spanish: pelado (es), sin un duro (es), sin un peso (es)
• Swahili: msoto (sw)
• Swedish: pank (sv)
• Turkish: meteliksiz (tr)

Verb

broke

1. Simple past of break.
2. (archaic or poetic) Past participle of break
   • 1999 October 3, J. Stewart Burns, "Mars University", Futurama, season 2, episode 2, Fox Broadcasting Company

     Guenther: I guess the hat must have broke my fall.

   1. (nautical) Demoted, deprived an of a commission.

      He was broke and rendered unfit to serve His Majesty at sea.

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: dinner · command · etc. · #771: broke · waiting · political · reading