money-bound, a. jocular.
[after weather-bound.]
Detained by want of money.
| 1825 Moore Mem. Sheridan II. 488 His letters to the treasurer of the theatre on these occasions were generally headed with the words ‘Money-bound’. 1863 J. C. Jeaffreson Sir Everard's Dau. 85 When you were often money-bound for a month at a time at a manor-house, because you hadn't the requisite amount of cash wherewith to tip the servants on leaving. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Money-bound, a phrase expressive of such passengers as are detained on board till a remittance arrives for paying the passage made. |