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skin
noun- a person UK
- He was known far and wide as a decent old skin[.] — Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy, 1958
- an immature or inexperienced young person UK
Royal Navy slang. - [T]he poor kid’s just a bit of skin! — Rick Jolly, Jackspeak, 1989
- contact between hands in greeting, acknowledgement or congratulations US, 1942
- Open the door and gimme some skin, pig. Or gimme some pigskin, as the case may be. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 25, 1955
- “Then we all gave each other some skin.” — Life, p. 33, 11 July 1955: Teen-Age Terror on the New York Streets
- “What it is, my man,” he yelled out as he came up and held his hand out for some skin. — Donald Goines, Cry Revenge, p. 101, 1974
- sex US
- The numbers were all in, and there wasn’t any skin / Crime was on a sudden decrease. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 57, 1976
- a woman as a sex object TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1936
- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- the foreskin UK, 1961
- a condom US
Literally, “an extra layer of (latex) skin”. - She asked me what I meant; rubbers? safes? skins? prophylactics? contraceptives? — John Nichols, The Sterile Cuckoo, p. 105, 1965
- a thin paper used to roll marijuana or tobacco cigarettes US
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 105, 1996
- one dollar US, 1930
- Fifty skins was fifty skins. Fifty! For making one lousy phone call! — Bernard Wolfe, The Late Risers, p. 159, 1954
- Somebody found a new tailor who could make the greatest pants for 14 skins[.] — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 28, 1957
- I say, Ain you got no skins, no kale? No bread? No bones, no berries, no boys? — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p. 22, 1961
- He had twelve thousand skins in his pocket when he left here. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 18, 1963
- I’ve seen him take on a professional twice his size at a carnival and not only stay in for the three minutes to win the twenty-five skins but pin him. — Earl Thompson, Tattoo, p. 142, 1974
- in carnival and amusement park usage, a shirt US, 1982
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 244, 1981
- a wallet US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 196, 1950
- a tyre, especially a well-worn one US, 1954
- — Good Housekeeping, p. 143, September 1958: Hot-rod terms for teen-age girls
- — American Speech, p. 273, December 1961: Northwest truck drivers’ language
- fist fighting US
- I wanna hold it like we always held it–with skin! — West Side Story, 1957
- an American Indian US
An abbreviated form of “redskin”. - “Hey, brother, we got a new skin in the yard” means that a new Indian has been assigned to your area of the prison. — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 38, 1989
▷ see:SKINHEAD▶ get under your skin
to irritate; to become constantly irritating UK, 1896- You wonder what’s going on, but what really matters is how you feel, whether [Emio] Greco gets under your skin. — The Guardian, 21 August 2001
▶ no skin off your nose
it makes no difference to you UK, 1926
Variations have included: “no skin off your ear”, “off your ass”, “off your bugle”, “off you” and “off Jeff” (thus, any person’s name).- It’s almost no skin off my nose to do it, so why not do it? — The Guardian, 19 January 2001
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