adjective General Slang

Boracic lint

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Cockney rhyming slang for skint (broke).

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Cockney rhyming slang for 'skint', meaning flat broke, no money. Almost always shortened to 'brassic' in modern use (so much so that most people who say brassic have no idea it started as boracic lint, a medicated dressing).

“Can't come out tonight mate, I'm completely brassic till payday.”
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Boracic lint In A Sentence

Can't come out tonight mate, I'm completely brassic till payday.

Origin & Usage

Late 19th / early 20th-century Cockney rhyming slang. Boracic lint was a real medical dressing soaked in boric acid, commonly stocked in Victorian and Edwardian households.

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