broke

Meanings

Verb

• Past of break
• To act as a broker; to transact business for another.
• To act as procurer in love matters; to pimp.

Adjective

• Financially ruined, bankrupt.
• Without any money, penniless.
• Broken.
• Demoted, deprived of a commission.
• Broke off, rich, wealthy

Noun

• Paper or board that is discarded and repulped during the manufacturing process.
• A fragment, remains, a piece broken off.

Origin

• Ablauted form of break.
• From Middle English broce, from Old English gebroc, from brecan. Compare broken, past participle of break. Compare also Scots brock#Etymology 2.