spring broke
adj.— «Although I was “spring broke” this year, I did have the opportunity to experience Spring Break as a senior in high school.» —“Up, Down and Out” by Naomi Goldin in Cornell University Cornell Daily Sun (Ithaca, N.Y.) Apr. 4, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
In a 1968 list of Cheyenne High School slang that ran in newspapers around the United States, Clyde, written like the man’s name, meant one’s head or mind. The Wyoming students’ examples included Use your Clyde! and put it out of your Clyde...
Quiz Guy John Chaneski shares one of this take-off puzzles, where the object is to remove a letter from the beginning from one word to form another word. In this case, the letter is always S. For example, what two words are clued by “The...