Verb

1. (at a casino etc) To win more money than is available to be paid.
2. To exhaust one's financial resources.

Quotations

• 2001 Richard Swinburne - Epistemic Justification

  Or, similarly, consider the man determined to break the bank at Monte Carlo by studying the frequencies with which a certain roulette wheel lands in the red

• 2001 Tom Davidson, Lorna Gentry - The Complete Idiot's Guide to Home Security

  Home Security Doesn't Have to Break the Bank