Adjective, nonfunctional, in need of repair.
Rural usage, derived from past participle and/or the past tense of verb to break.
Usually used to refer to previously functioning machines which no longer work correctly.
The refrigerator's broke, we need to get it fixed.
breaking someone's ankles; making them think you went one way but you really went the other and they have to come all the way back to get you
adj.- Used to describe someone who's looks are displeasing to the eye. Correction of this condition is something which cannot generally be fixed by application of make-up or concealer, but mandates corrective plastic surgery. May also be used to describe someone's particular features.
see also go for broke
T'was not until I awoke from a long night of carousing that I realized, as my friends had told me, she was indeed broke.
Bad grammar that substitutes the word broken.
Hey come ova here and fix my mower. It's broke.
A women usurping the authority of a man in the relationship. He thought he was going to runnin the shit, but she "flipped the scriped" and now she is runnin it. He thinks he is just being helpful and considerate, he doesn't realize she broke him slowly.
Man says he won't do housework. She gets him sprung and then after a while he is doing 50% of the housework. He is broke. She broke him.