bankrupt, n. 1. debtor, insolvent; pauper, beggar. -adj. 2. insolvent, financially ruined, wiped out, Inf. on the rocks, overdrawn, in debt, in the red; impoverished, destitute, poverty-stricken, penurious, impecunious, beggared, pauperized; indigent, poor, needy, pinched, straitened, distressed, Inf. strapped, Inf. up against it, Inf. on one's uppers, Inf. hard up, Inf uptight; financially embarrassed, out of cash, Inf. short, Brit. SI. skint, All Inf. broke, dead broke, flat broke, stone broke.
3. lacking, deficient in, wanting, without, sans; devoid of, deprived of, bereft of, bereaved of; in need of.
-v. 4. impoverish, beggar, pauperize; drain, de plete, exhaust; Inf. break, SI. bust, ruin, SI. wipe out, break [s.o.'s] back, cripple financially.
5. go bankrupt Inf. take a bath, Inf. lose one's shirt, Inf. get wiped out; fail, fold or fold up. bankruptcy, n. 1. insolvency, liquidation, indebtedness, straitened circumstances; indigence, poverty, penury, destitution, impecuniousness, beggary, pennilessness, neediness; pauperism, pauperage, pauper-dom, mendicancy, mendicity.
2. ruin, failure, disaster; ruination, downfall, undoing, collapse, debacle, breakup; destruction, corruption, vitiation, debasement.
3. depletion, deficiency, dearth, paucity, lack, want, absence, default; scarcity, insufficiency, inadequacy, short supply; scantiness, meagerness. banner, n. flag, pennant, pennon, banderole, bannerol, streamer, burgee, jack, bunting; standard, gonfalon, vexillum, labarum, eagle; ensign, oriflamme, colors, insignia. banquet, n. 1. feast, repast, Inf. spread, refection, dinner, meal, treat; dinner meeting, symposium, dinner party, testimonial; entertainment, regalement, frolic, merrymaking; revelry, party, carnival, festival, festivity; carousal, wassail, compotation, bacchanalia. -v. 2. entertain, regale, treat, indulge; play host to, feed, wine and dine.
3. feast, dine, wine and dine, Inf. eat high off the hog; gormandize, gluttonize, gorge, stuff oneself, SI. stuff one's face, overeat, indulge, eat one's fill; revel, carouse, frolic, make merry. bantam, n. 1. jackanapes, whippersnapper, puppy, Inf. cockalorum; popinjay, coxcomb, fop, dandy; braggart, gascon, boaster, swaggerer.
-adj. 2. diminutive, wee, Inf. peewee, miniature, Inf mini, minute, pocket, pocket-sized; small, tiny, Inf teeny, little, baby, microscopic; undersized, stunted, dwarfish, midget, runty, puny, Lilliputian. banter, n. 1. raillery, repartee, wordplay, quiddity, badinage, persiflage; teasing, Inf. kidding, Inf. ribbing, Inf. joshing; joking, jesting, pleasantry, drollery, jocularity, waggery; ridicule, mockery, derision, Inf. ragging, Brit, quizzing.
-v. 2. tease, Inf- kid, Inf. rib, Inf. josh; badinage, chaff, rally, twit, Inf. pick or get on; make fun of, mock, ridicule, jeer at, Inf rag; laugh at, deride, fleer, taunt. baptism, n. 1. christening, pedobaptism, baptize-ment, liturgy, Eccles. sacrament; sprinkling, besprinkling, holy water sprinkle, morning star, aspersion, aspersing, Rom. Cath. Ch. Asperges, affusion; an-nointing, Eccles. chrism; immersion, submergence, dunking, Archaic, dipping; laying on of the hands, Obs. imposing; ablution, lustration, lustrating, cleansing, purification, purifying, decontamination, decontaminating.
2. ceremony, rite, ritual; anointment, anointing, dedication, dedicating, consecration, consecrating; initiation, initiating, (of a ship) launching, inauguration, commencement, beginning; naming, titling, entitling, entitlement, appellation, designating, designation, denominating, denomination, Archaic, nominating,

baptize, v. 1. sprinkle, besprinkle, asperse, anoint; immerse, submerge, dunk, Archaic, dip; lay on the hands, Obs. impose.