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skim noun money stolen from a business or enterprise, skimmed from the business funds like cream from milk US, 1988- “Raymond Patriarca and Henry Tameleo were getting a regular piece of the skim, like other mob bosses.” — Vincent Teresa, My Life in the Mafia, p. 212, 1973
- Then there’s the secret funds the White House and the CIA control for the Freedom Fighters and their little wars all over the world. At least sixty percent of that is skim. — Richard Condon, Prizzi’s Glory, p. 263, 1988
- Nobody interfered with the fuckin’ skim. — Casino, 1995
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