Rural Dictionary

woke and broke

(noun) the close connection between someone's progressive or left-wing politics and their poor choice of college major or bad financial decision-making

After completing her Bachelor of Arts in Genocide Studies, Sarah was bound to end up woke and broke.
The woke and broke Starbucks employees decided to use company time to educate customers on the systemic racism of GMO non-single source coffee with the store's dry erase board.

by Squeaktastic March 18, 2021

keep broke

1. (v. phrase) To embarrass, usually by denying some expected assistance, romance, friendship, or freedom.

The tech at the ski shop totally kept me broke when he suggested I might need calf inserts for my new boots!

Rick was going to join our softball team, but his wife is keeping him broke and making him clean the garage instead.

I left work early to get ahead of rush hour traffic, but construction in the left lane kept me broke anyway.

Didn't you hear me ask you to grab me a beer while you were in the kitchen? You're keeping me broke!

Will thinks he's going to get the longest road in Settlers of Catan, but Danielle will keep broke by building in front of him first.

by jobinhimself July 27, 2015

Ramen-Broke

1. adjective:
Without money; penniless, The situation that arises, typically at the end of the month, when one has over-spent and must make ends meet by surviving on $.25 bags of Top Ramen Noodles.

2. verb:
To be driven into poverty by a particularly large expense

1. a. I went crazy at Saks and Sephora the other day - now I am going to be Ramen-Broke, which works out because starving myself is the only way I am going to fit into the Seven Jeans I just bought anyway.

2. v. That trip to Vegas fucking Ramen-Broke me dude.

by Kristen W. September 22, 2006

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