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Definition of Stone-broke
1. Adjective. Lacking funds. "`skint' is a British slang term"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stone-broke
Literary usage of Stone-broke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"It is because these three quarreled about the stone, that the stone broke by
itself—so they say. 9. That center panel which broke is even to today on top of ..."
2. Toda Grammar and Texts by Murray Barnson Emeneau (1984)
"It is because these three quarreled about the stone, that the stone broke by
itself—so they say. 9. That center panel which broke is even to today on top of ..."
3. The Quarrying Industry of Missouri by Ernest Robertson Buckley, Henry Andrew Buehler (1904)
"With very few exceptions, the pieces of stone broke under a load ... The second•
sample of this stone broke when a load of 13800 pounds was applied. ..."
4. Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students by Cornelis Stoffel (1894)
"Well, a geologist breaks stones, and if you get stone broke, why— "; Punch, March
23, ... 29, 1888, 156" ['Any on Marriage]: " When they do get stone-broke ..."
5. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1905)
"... when the stone broke and he fell through to the bottom of the vault, and was
hurt by the fall and by the pieces of the stone falling upon him; ..."
6. A glossary of French slang by Olivier Leroy (1922)
"I'm fed up with them, they make me spew. débine, sb. f. Être dans la débine, to
be in straitened circumstances, down on one's luck, stone broke. ..."
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