Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Past tense of break.
- v. Nonstandard A past participle of break.
- adj. Informal Bankrupt.
- adj. Informal Lacking funds: "Following the election, the Democrats were demoralized, discredited, and broke” ( Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr.)
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Preterit and (with broken) past participle of break.
- n. A breach.
- To transact business for another in trade; act as agent in buying and selling and other commercial business; carry on the business of a broker.
- To act as a go-between or procurer in love matters; pimp.
- To transact business by means of an agent.
- n. An obsolete form of brook.
- A Middle English form of brook.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Lacking money; bankrupt
- adj. informal Broken.
- v. Simple past of break.
- v. Past participle of break
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. rare To transact business for another.
- v. obsolete To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.
- imp. & p. p. of break.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lacking funds
Examples
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“With "How Will I Know," Houston and the label broke through an implicit policy at MTV—a force in the industry at the time—which in effect limited the number of African-Americans and other minority artists in its rotation.”
“Why would I …, Alek began, but then his expression broke into a smile.”
“A door slamming and voices below calling my name broke through my stupor, and prompted me to struggle to a sitting position.”
“Something in her expression broke when I said that.”
“Note the way the word broke into two spellings: the verb broach, meaning to “open up, introduce, address,” and the noun brooch, meaning “an ornamental pin sticking through a garment.””
“But reports last month by the Guardian suggest the title broke even for the first time since its new owners took control in January last year, reducing its operating cost base by £20 million, including some redundancies, and production costs of £1.1 million are now reported to be offset the same amount in advertising revenue.”
“And his son, perhaps his grandson, will become what you call broke; will from lack of pressure to learn some useful art, and from spending only, become useless and helpless.”
“His name broke from her lips on a sob as Emma’s body erupted in one long, glorious, blinding shudder of rapture.”
“Medecin sans Frontieres (MSF a. k.a Doctors Without Borders) was born in 1971 when it broke from the International Committee of the Red Cross because the ICRC had balked at aid that might benefit the rebels.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Christian Hall: 'The Crisis Caravan': Charity's Road to Hell?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘broke’.
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How She Entered the Room
Meant to be added to the word 'in' example 'burst in'
burst, swept, came, jumped, broke, flew, flitted, billowed, gallumphed, staggered, wafted, lurched and 39 more...
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Words that start with B
butterfly, brain, broom, break, brick, brilliant, bubbles, balloons, bananas, bow, book, bunny and 37 more...
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Tunie: Word Disassociation
(I'm fairly sure that I'm subverting the whole concept of the Tunie by listing this song. Subversion! Yes! HA HA HA HA! Mine is an evil laugh!!!)
Word Disassociation
antidisestablishm..., quickly, ruby, bionic, about, crouch, a cappella, imposter, flames, distraction, murderous, over and 181 more...
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Chainlink's Words
hat, opalescent, opal, emerald, sapphire, scythe, carnival, calliope, brilliant, awesome, feather, fantastic and 268 more...
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oldecat's Words
noncommutative, morphodynamics, ferrywoman, circumcircle, acceleration, inactivity, biodiesel, corrosion, quadrilogy, imprimitivity, normalizer, teleosemantics and 240 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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Tunie: Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Music and lyrics ©1976 by Gordon Lightfoot
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they called "Gitche Gumee."
The lake, it is said, never gives up ...twenty-nine, chimed, church, cathedral, sailors, maritime, detroit, remembered, mariners, lake erie, lake ontario, bays and 53 more...
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vt 21-25
bite, bit, bitten, bleed, bled, breed, bred, blow, blew, blown, break, broke and 1 more...
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five-letter words starting with 'b'
blame, bland, brute, basic, basis, bribe, brand, borne, birth, billy, balmy, brash and 57 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for broke.
milosrdenstvi I enjoy using this as a past participle in certain social contexts. (Picked it up while working IT one summer.) Dec 18, 2010