Skase

/ ˈ��ɪ�� /

noun

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

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Word History and Origins

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

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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.

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

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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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skarn skat

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