Boracic

Boracic

(British)

Penniless, broke. The word is a shortening of the rhyming slang 'boracic lint': skint. A genuine example of London working-class argot, this term was adopted into raffish speech in general from the early 1970s. (Boracic is an older name for boric acid used as a weak antiseptic impregnating band- ages, etc.).

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