skint in English

adjective
1
(of a person) having little or no money available.
I'm a bit skint just now
adjective

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "skint" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "skint", or refer to the context using the word "skint" in the English Dictionary.

1. 2 I'm skint at the moment.

2. 3 I'm skint! Lend us a tenner.

3. 10 I can't, I'm really skint this month.

4. 1 I can't go out tonight-I'm skint.

5. 8 He skint his words once over again.

6. 9 He skint his words once yet again.

7. 7 I am skint, can not afford famous brand shoe!

8. 11 I some kind ofd Li Ming skint the window.

9. 14 I get paid each Friday, and by Tuesday I'm always skint.

10. 12 He is a skint guy , and I won't marry him.

11. 5 I'm really skint -- you couldn't lend me a few quid could you?

12. 6 I sold my record collection when I was skint one time.

13. Comes from the cockney rhyming slang 'Boracic lint' (a type of medical dressing): Boracic lint = skint.

14. Synonyms for Boracic include impecunious, destitute, poor, impoverished, penniless, needy, indigent, penurious, broke and skint

15. 13 Would you like to join someone who skint his leg when he stole chickens.

16. 4 At that time I was skint,[www.Sentencedict.com] and I would have taken any job I could get.

17. 21 What's more, the penny - pinching has nothing much to do with the fact that Britain is skint.

18. 16 A skinny , sickly and, for much of his life , skint individual , Perutz is an unlikely hero.

19. 15 Can you lend me some money to tide me over? I'm a bit skint at the moment.

20. 19 Leeds under O'Leary and Ridsdale were the nearly men: nearly won the league, nearly reached the Champions League final, then nearly went skint.

21. 18 Nearly half have used credit cards or overdraft when skint and 58 per cent say only keeping away from the high street would stop them spending.

22. 20 Results: The skin tissue in the montmorillonite intervene group irradiated by ultraviolet rays didn' t change obviously as compared with that in the self-control group. But, the damage skint...

23. Charlie Sheen's life now - 'Blacklisted, skint' and selling video messages for £300 Charlie Sheen was once one of the highest paid actors on TV but a worrying HIV diagnosis sent his life

24. 17 "The fact that they're prepared to do that job where others won't, even when they're skint, means there's some capability inside them that permits them to do it and not be disgusted, " he said.

25. Boracic It’s pronounced ‘ brassic ’ and it’s slang for being penniless. Like so many other widespread expressions, it derives from the Cockney rhyming slang 'Boracic lint' which rhymes with skint signifying that the person has no money