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skint
/skɪnt/ adjective UK informalDefinition
› not having any money, especially temporarily: Quite often I find myself skint at the end of the month. It was just after Christmas when everyone is totally skint.
(Definition of skint adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary
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