When you don't have any money, you are low on cash, without funds, or just plain old "financially embarrased.
Hey girlfriend, me and my girls are going to check out that new movie, so how 'bout you? Sounds fun, but I can't this time cause I'm riding the greyhound.
My girlfriends went to the movies tonight, but I didn't go with them cause I'm ridin' the greyhound til I pick up my check from work.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.