break the bank verb2 •At a casino etc., to win all the money that is available to be paid.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 •To exhaust one's financial resources.Home Security Doesn't Have to Break the Bank — 2001 formsbroke the bank · broken the bank · breaking the bank · breaks the bank