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Skase

/ ˈskeɪs /

noun

  1. do a Skase informal.
    to skip the country while owing a large amount of money
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Skase1

C20: after the Australian businessman Christopher Skase (1948–2001), who fled Australia after the collapse of his business empire, owing millions of dollars
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Example Sentences

There was paintin', and poetry, and music—but them warn't of no account in a new country where money was skase.

Human happiness iz skase enny how, and wants too mutch watching, to be invested in dorgs.

The hardest thing, in every day life, iz tew pik out a good kat, not bekause kats are so skase, az bekauze they are so plenty.

Dogs are gitting dredful skase, and if yu dont pik one out putty soon, it will be forever too late.

Qu.—Did yu ever hear phools, and even wise men say that life waz short, that deth waz certain, that happiness waz skase?

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