Broke

/broʊk/ verb, adjective

Either the past tense of 'break' (to have split or damaged something), or an adjective meaning having no money.

From Old English 'brecan' (to break), with Germanic roots; the 'money' sense developed as slang by the early 1900s, from the metaphor of being 'broken' financially.

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