Boracic lint
Cockney rhyming slang for skint (broke).
Definitions
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).
Boracic lint In A Sentence
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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