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skinny
noun- inside information, rumour or fact US, 1959
- But I hadn’t really, because it turns out the song [“Sky Pilot”] is quite long and the real skinny is at the end–a controversial line: “Thou shalt not kill.” — James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, pp. 88–89, 1968
- Well, what’s the skinny? — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 16, 1970
- [T]he guy was fuckin’ obsessed with fuckin’ data, you know. obsessed with knowin’ the fuckin’ skinny on other peoples lives. — James Ellroy, Because the Night, p. 486, 1984
- These guys here have got the skinny on the happenin’ after hours. — Clueless, 1995
- in circus and carnival usage, a ten-cent piece US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 244, 1981
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