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skinter

skinter is the comparative form of skint.

Meaning of skint

Adjective

skint (comparative skinter or more skint, superlative skintest or most skint)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, slang) Penniless, poor, impecunious, broke.
    • There were a mixture of local people with cold, pinched faces and skint and harassed looking tourists sitting around fondling their itchsome facial hair, their tongues lolling into fizzy yellow pints of lager.2000, Tim Bradford, Is Shane MacGowan still alive?
  2. (slang) skinned

Questions about skinter

What is skinter the comparative form of?
Skinter is the comparative form of skint.

Words near skinter in the dictionary

  1. skinsuited
  2. skinsuits
  3. skint
  4. skintag
  5. skintags
  6. skinter
  7. skintern
  8. skinterns
  9. skintest
  10. skintight
  11. skintights

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