strapped
Short on cash
Strapped means short of money: I'm strapped for cash until payday.
The word suggests being tightly constrained, as if bound by financial limitations.
In American slang, strapped also means carrying a gun: He's always strapped when he goes out at night.
Lacking any funds
- tightFirmly stretched or fitting
- shortOf limited extent
- pinchedStole or squeezed tightly
- squeezedPressed firmly together
stretched · hard-up · struggling · budgeting · scraping · skint · overextended · underfunded
Failed under stress
- beltedEncircled at waist
- cinchedFastened or guaranteed
- securedMade fast or obtained
- tetheredFastened by a line
harnessed · lashed · bound · anchored · snapped · clipped · latched · trussed
Secured or destined
- tiedFastened by knotting
- immobilizedMade unable to move
- confinedKept within bounds
- pinnedFixed firmly, immobilized
gurney · restraints · shackled · fettered · manacled
broke
Lacking any funds
squeezed · stretched · hard-up · struggling · budgeting · scraping · skint · overextended · underfunded · maxed-out
buckled
Failed under stress
tethered · harnessed · lashed · bound · anchored · snapped · clipped · latched · trussed · wrapped
bound
Secured or destined
- tiedFastened by knotting
- immobilizedMade unable to move
- confinedKept within bounds
pinned · gurney · restraints · shackled · fettered · manacled
packing
Putting items in containers
armed · heeled · equipped · gunned · weaponized
- money idiomsarm and a leg, break the bank, penny pincher, cheapskate, tightwad
- financesmoney, affluence, cash, bankrupt, income
- money troublesdebt relief, bad debt, bankruptcy filing, paycheck to paycheck, struggling
- wealth statuspoor, rich, wealthy, affluent, middle-class
- fastening statesfastened, unfastened, locked, unlocked, latched
- povertypoverty line, poor, poverty rate, impoverished, generational poverty
strappedwealthy
Having abundant financial resources
rich · affluent · flush · prosperous · well-off
strappedunarmed
Having no weapons
defenseless · unprotected · weaponless · naked · vulnerable
- strapped for cashLacking available money
- strapped for moneyLacking sufficient funds
- cash strappedSeverely short of money