skins

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.

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.
See also: skin
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

skins

n. drums. (Musicians. The same as hides.) Andy can really make the skins talk.
See also: skin
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • skin
  • skin me
  • skinhead
  • jack
  • jacked
  • jacking
  • mickey mouse
  • juice
  • juiced
  • garbage
References in periodicals archive
'Guidance should come from a board-certified dermatologist who will recommend the good brand for your skin type.
Cetaphil Philippines brand manager Francesca Sy said that the National Healthy Skin Mission fulfills the brand's purpose of improving the lives of Filipinos through maintenance of healthy skin.
On a mission to promote healthy skin among Filipinos
To get the skin properly tanned, it must be free of this excess material.
Salting the skin cures it and sets the hair so it doesn't slip.
How to tan a deer hide: follow these hide-tanning steps, complete with time requirements and tool recommendations, to create your own beautiful, quality leather
The metaphysical assumptions of skin bleaching is examined and it is argued that the Shona draw a fundamental distinction between inner beauty and external beauty (Matereke & Mapara 2009); a distinction between identity and identity crisis; appearance and reality; artificial beauty and inner beauty.
The Afrocentric theory is appropriate in this paper because it is significant in giving value and pride to the black skin which has been historically marginalized, abused and displaced by the fallacies of white supremacy.
Shona proverbial implications on skin bleaching: some philosophical insights
The recycled car tyres used to clad the Environmental Education Centre in Pennsylvania (p52) and the ribbed copper cladding of the new Business School in Bifrost, designed by Studio Granda (p82), both create skins that act as emphatic signs; signs that assertively announce the function of one building and register the setting of the other.
Basel: Birkhauser Publishers, 2000, and Digital Skins: The Architecture of Surface by the same author in Skin: Surface, Substance + Design, Ellen Lupton, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
Perfect skin: the creative and commercial quest to redefine the building skin continues to enthral
Avoid: Bruised fruit or fruit that yields to slight pressure on the skin. Hard tan or brown areas may not seriously affect the taste.
How to pick fresh fruit
He also sees a growing role for TPO skins. Three emerging technologies are likely to support that shift, one being negative-skin vacuum forming--developed by Visteon Corp.
Growing share of IP skin market seen for TPOs & slush molding. (In Brief: Your Business)
Ripe apricots will yield to gentle pressure on the skin.
Getting fresh with fruit
PHOTO : Coinjected headlamp reflectors on some European cars have a reinforced PBT core for heat resistance and unreinforced PBT skins for smooth surfaces.
Coinjection versatility spurs automotive potential
Misuse of moisturizers: Many moisturizers only coat skin with a greasy layer of chemicals and many of them contain toxic ingredients that can actually damage and irritate skin.
Extreme Weather: Four Hidden Reasons Why Your Dry Skin Suffers
Especially in sports, where there is so much significant skin to skin contact and failure to cover infected wounds, as well as having a number of uncovered skin wounds on the body surfaces that allow for a portal of entry for staph to invade.
The invisible enemy: alerting your staff about the dangers of MRSA, which could become your biggest opponent
No wonder, then, that skin cancer is the most common cancer in the United States, with more than one million skin cancers diagnosed each year.
Women & skin health