bank-breaker

noun

bank-break·​er

plural bank-breakers

: something that is extremely or excessively expensive

At less than $700,000, the Flynn-Johnston compromise is not a bank-breaker.

—Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, 4 Dec. 2009

see also break the bank at bank entry 4

Word History

First Known Use

1984, in the meaning defined above

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