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scrunt

scrunt [ skrunt ] (past and past participle scrunt, present participle scrunt·ing, 3rd person present singular scrunts)


intransitive verb 
Definition:
 
Caribbean financially strapped: to be in a poor financial situation

[Late 20th century. Perhaps < Scottish and northern English dialect, "scratch, scrub"]
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