Get to know Skint better with 9 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like broke or bust.
Skint meaning
- Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
- skinned
Using Skint
- The main meaning on this page is: Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke. | skinned
- Useful related words include: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke.
- In the example corpus, skint often appears in combinations such as: as skint, was skint.
Context around Skint
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Skint
- In this selection, "skint" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, stop, permanently, kids, councils, holiday and estate stand out and add context to how "skint" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include are permanently skint and end up skint or end. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "skint" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with skint
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
End up skint or end up rich. (7 words)
Skint Estate fights for a way to articulate these experiences. (10 words)
This scene was oddly juxtaposed with a period in which James was skint while building his business. (17 words)
Meanwhile, back at the flat, Toyah found bank statements showing Spider's nowhere near as skint as he’s been making out and, paranoid, she went through his laptop, discovering he’s been emailing his ex and searching for houses near her. (42 words)
A wealthy heir with a taste for the finer things who once spent £20,000 on a night out traded five star hotels for a tent by a motorway on Rich Kids, Skint Holiday. (34 words)
This follows his admission in the jungle he was "skint" until he became world champion but his wife Rachael didn't realise their financial situation. (25 words)
Example sentences (9)
Instead of him asking the FM what she was doing to stop skint councils cutting teacher numbers, an SNP MSP finally did it.
Meanwhile, back at the flat, Toyah found bank statements showing Spider's nowhere near as skint as he’s been making out and, paranoid, she went through his laptop, discovering he’s been emailing his ex and searching for houses near her.
This follows his admission in the jungle he was "skint" until he became world champion but his wife Rachael didn't realise their financial situation.
End up skint or end up rich.
This scene was oddly juxtaposed with a period in which James was skint while building his business.
Whilst someone else penned: “I just spent £358 on the entire collection for me and my two daughters, they are teachers so are permanently skint.
A wealthy heir with a taste for the finer things who once spent £20,000 on a night out traded five star hotels for a tent by a motorway on Rich Kids, Skint Holiday.
Skint Estate fights for a way to articulate these experiences.
Mr Farage has previously described himself as "skint," though he earns a salary of around 80,000 euro as a member of the European parliament.
Common combinations with skint
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- as skint 2×
- was skint 2×