Skase

/ ˈskeɪs /

noun

1. do a Skase informal.
   to skip the country while owing a large amount of money

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

Example Sentences

Up-and-down men are skase, but the horizontal are less skaser.

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We beleaf in the spirits of just men—but beleaf they ar skase.

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

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"Ay, it mun be skase or else I should ha' had a speciment i' my musaum," Jammie said.

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Earthli glory is sum like potatoze on very ritch sile,—top plenty,—tater skase.

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