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skinner
noun- a big win on an unbacked horse or other race competitor; a betting coup UK, 1874
- — Sydney Slang Dictionary, p. 8, 1882
- — Tom Ellis, The Science of Turf Investment, p. 31, 1936
- Grafter had a wonderful book: some backed straw hats, some caps, some hard hitters, some top hats and others panamas. He finished getting a skinner when a big Indian walked out the gate wearing a turban. — Frank Hardy and Athol George Mulley, The Needy and the Greedy, p. 37, 1975
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 82, 1977
- “You must have had a skinner on the Papal election,” I said to The Saint. — Roy Higgins and Tom Prior, The Jockey Who Laughed, p. 60, 1982
- — Ryan Aven-Bray, Ridgey Didge Oz Jack Lang, p. 43, 1983
- — John McCririck, John McCririck’s World of Betting, p. 61, 1991
- — David Bennet, Know Your Bets, p. 102, 2001
- a gambling cheat US
- — John Scarne, Scarne on Dice, p. 479, 1974
- a police officer US
- — Miss Cone, The Slang Dictionary (Hawthorne High School), 1965
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