[notbeforenoun] (informal) having no money:
I'm always broke by the end of the month. * During the recession thousands of small businesses went broke (= had to stop doing business). * flat / stony broke (= completely broke)
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go for broke (informal) to risk everything in one determined effort to do sth
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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