skin
Related to skin: Skin diseases, Skin rashes
skin
1. noun, slang One's life; one's survival or self-preservation. Thanks for bringing me some extra cash—you really saved my skin, there!
2. noun, slang A cigarette paper. Do you have any spare skins? I forgot to pick up some at the gas station.
3. noun, slang Nude flesh, especially the breasts or thighs. Come on, toots, lift up your skirt and show us some skin!
4. noun, informal In video games, an alternate appearance for a character within the game. The game is free, so the developers make their money by selling various skins for a few dollars a pop.
5. adjective, slang Of, depicting, or related to nudity or pornography. They sell skin magazine that are kept on a rack hidden behind black paper. The movie theater used to show skin flicks and exploitation films back in the '70s.
6. verb, dated slang To cheat or swindle (someone). The con man skinned them for nearly $10,000.
skin me
slang To slap hands with one in an amicable fashion; to give one five. Hey man, what's up? Skin me!
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skins
1. slang Drums, or a drum set. I find it so therapeutic to spend an hour or two hitting the skins each night. And on the skins we have the very talented Audrey Brecht!
2. In a casual sports game in which neither team has a uniform, the players who remove their shirts (thus exposing their skin) in order to distinguish themselves from the opposing team (called the "shirts," since they are still wearing shirts). The practice is called "shirts and skins." John forgot the yellow jerseys, so we'll have to play shirts versus skins tonight. OK, Tom, Jack, Bill, and I will be skins—the rest of you can be shirts.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
skin
1. n. a dollar bill. This ticket cost me a couple of skins—and it’s not worth it. You got a skin for the tollbooth?
2. and skinhead n. someone with a shaved or bald head. (Some such persons may also engage in political violence.) Who’s the skinhead with the earrings?
3. tv. to cheat or overcharge someone. The guy who sold me this car really skinned me.
skins
n. drums. (Musicians. The same as hides.) Andy can really make the skins talk.
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McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- (a) thin skin
- (all) skin and bones
- a banana skin
- a thick skin
- a thick/thin skin
- a thin skin
- be (all) brothers/sisters under the skin
- be (all) skin and bone(s)
- be brothers/sisters under the skin
- be no skin off (one's) back
- be no skin off (one's) nose
- be no skin off (one's) teeth
- be skin and bone
- be soaked to the skin
- be/get soaked to the skin
- beauty is (only) skin-deep
- beauty is more than skin deep
- beauty is only skin deep
- Beauty is only skin-deep
- by the skin of (one's) teeth
- by the skin of one's teeth
- by the skin of teeth
- by the skin of your teeth
- comfortable in (one's) own skin
- do something by the skin of your teeth
- drenched to the skin
- get under (one's) skin
- get under skin
- get under somebody's skin
- get under someone's skin
- get under someone's skin, to
- get under your skin
- give (one) skin
- give (one) some skin
- Give me five!
- Give me skin!
- Give me some skin!
- give some skin
- give someone skin
- have a hide like a rhinoceros
- have a hide/skin like a rhinoceros
- have a skin like a rhinoceros
- have a thick skin
- have a thin skin
- have skin in the game
- have/put skin in the game
- it's no skin off my nose
- it's no skin off my, your, his, etc. nose
- jump in (one's) skin
- jump out of (one's) skin
- jump out of one's skin
- jump out of skin
- jump out of your skin
- knock (one) some skin
- knock some skin
- knock someone some skin
- Let every man skin his own skunk
- Let every man skin his own skunk.
- make (one's) flesh crawl
- make (one's) skin crawl
- make flesh crawl
- make one's flesh creep
- make skin
- make your skin crawl
- more than one way to skin a cat
- more than one way to skin a cat, there's
- nearly jump out of (one's) skin
- no skin off (one's) back
- no skin off (one's) nose
- no skin off (one's) teeth
- no skin off my nose, it's/that's
- no skin off one's nose
- no skin off teeth
- nothing but skin and bones
- nothing but skin and bones and skin and bones
- play out of (one's) skin
- run out of (one's) skin
- save (one's) hide
- save (one's) neck
- save (one's) own hide
- save (one's) own skin
- save (one's) skin
- save one's bacon
- save one's skin, to
- save skin
- save somebody's/your neck/skin/hide
- save someone's skin
- save your skin
- shirts and skins
- skin
- skin (one) alive
- skin a goat
- skin alive
- skin an eel by the tail
- skin and bone
- skin and bones
- skin and bones, (nothing but)
- skin back
- skin flick
- skin game
- skin in the game
- skin me
- Skin me!
- skin of your teeth
- skin somebody alive
- skin someone alive
- skin the bear at once
- skin up
- skins
- slip (one) some skin
- slip on a banana skin
- soak (one) to the skin
- soak to the skin
- soaked to the skin
- there are many ways to skin a cat
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- thick skin
- thick skin, to have a
- under (one's)/the skin
- under the skin