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Adjective: strapped for cash
Usage: informal
  1. Without or very short of money
    "After losing his job, he found himself strapped for cash";
    - broke [informal], bust [informal], skint [Brit, informal], stone-broke [N. Amer, informal], stony-broke [Brit, informal], strapped [informal], cash-strapped [informal]

See also: poor