stonebroke

As a matter of course a friend soon discovered him, a man who declared himself in a whisper "stonebroke," and said, after a glass of the usual beverage, that if the truth must be told he had looked in here this evening to save himself from the torments of despair.

The Town Traveller George Gissing 1880

It is surprising, the money that is made out of stonebroke tramps.

Bulls 1907

But even if I was stonebroke, there's not enough money in the world to make me work for him again. "

Cold Noses Warm Kisses Stewardson, Dawn 1992

"Well," he said -- "I know it was a liberty -- I made it out you were no business man, only a stonebroke painter; that half the time you didn't know anything anyway, particularly money and accounts.

The Wrecker 1898