• SKIN
adj. 1. used of a film or a publication featuring nudity …1977 UK sl.
adj. 2. young, youthful; fresh, new …1989 UK Royal Navy sl.
n. 1. female genitals; also, a euphemism for the whole body viewed sexually …17C sl.
n. 2. a pocketbook, wallet, etc. …1790 Amer. sl.
n. 3. a condom …19C colloq.
n. 4. the foreskin …19C Brit.
n. 5. a term of contempt for a person …1825
n. 6. £1 … Bk1903 sl.
n. 7. money … Bk1903 sl.
n. 8. a horse; an inferior racehorse …1923 Amer. sl.
n. 9. a mule …1925 sl.
n. 10. one dollar; a dollar bill …1930 Amer. sl.
n. 11. a thin hog …1935 Amer. dial.
n. 12 a woman as a sex object …1936 Trinidad and Tobago
n. 13. an old cow …1937 Amer. dial.
n. 14. drums or bongos …1938 Amer. jazz usage
n. 15. the hand as used in handshaking or hand-slapping as a salutation …1942 African-American sl.
n. 16. a tire, esp. a well-worn one …1954 US sl
n. 17. fist-fighting …1957 US sl.
n. 18. a person …1958 UK sl.
n. 19. a thief …1967 Amer. dial.
n. 20. paper used for rolling marijuana or tobacco cigarettes …1969 sl., orig. US
n. 21. a skinhead …1970s Brit. sl.
n. 22. act of copulation …1976 US sl.
n. 23. a painfully thin person …Brit. sl.
n. 24. in carnival and amusement park usage: a shirt …1982 US sl.
n. 25. an immature or inexperienced young person …1989 UK Royal Navy sl.
n. 26. an American Indian …1989 US sl.
vb. 1. clothe, to attire …1599 obs.
vb. 2 to cheat or swindle; to victimize …1819 Amer. sl.
vb. 3. to copy or to cheat in an exam …1849 US sl.
vb. 4. to strip of clothing or money; to fleece by exactions or swindling …1851
vb. 5 to defeat decisively; to trounce …1862 Amer. sl.
vb. 6 to remove one’s clothing; to strip …M19 Brit. & US colloq.
vb. 7. to climb up or down, esp. by gripping with one’s arms and legs; to climb in this way …1871 Amer. dial.
vb. 8 to slip away, to depart …1876 Amer. sl.
vb. 9. to glance over, to examine …1895
vb. 10. to see, to watch; to spy …Bk1902 thieves’ sl.
vb. 11. to leave quickly; to run away …1903 Amer. sl.
vb. 12. to squeeze one’s way; to move in a constricted space …1920 Amer. dial.
vb. 13. to haul or drag something, esp. a log, or logging equipment …1931 Amer. dial.
vb. 14. to go fast …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 15. to inject a narcotic into the skin as opposed to a vein …1953 US drug culture sl.
vb. 16. in hot rodding: to remove a car’s upholstery …1958 US sl.
vb. 17. to get an advantage over somebody by tricky means …1970 Amer. dial.
vb. 18. to surf without a wet suit …1991 US sl.
vb. 19. to separate someone from all his money in a gambling game …Brit. sl.
• SKIN A CAT
vb. to be extremely mean or niggardly …1859
• SKIN A FLEA
vb. to be niggardly …1851
• SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE
vb. to be excessively mean and avaricious …1868
• SKIN A FLEA FOR ITS HIDE AND TALLOW
vb. to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, niggardly, or stingy …1819 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A FLINT
vb. to be extremely mean or niggardly …1694
• SKIN A GNAT FOR A PENNY
vb. to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A GOAT
vb. to vomit…1901 Amer. college sl.
• SKIN-A-GUTS
n. a very thin person …20C Brit. sl.
• SKIN ALONG
vb. to go fast …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SKIN A LOUSE
vb. to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1803 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR A CENT
vb. to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE
vb. to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR HIS HIDE AND TALLOW
vb. to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN A LOUSE FOR TALLOW
vb. to go to great lengths to save money; to be avaricious, mean, or stingy …1965 Amer. dial.
• SKINAMELINK; SKINAMULINK
n. a thin or emaciated person …1870 Amer. dial.
• SKIN AND BIRN
n. the whole of anything or any number …Bk1911 Sc.
• SKIN AND BLISTER
n. a sister …1925 rhyming sl.
• SKIN AND BONES
n. a very lean person ..1888
• SKIN AND GRIEF
n. a painfully thin person …20C Brit. sl.
• SKIN BACK
vb. to retract, as a false charge …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
• SKIN BEATER
n. a drummer …1947 US sl.
• SKIN BEEF
n. a prison sentence for an unspecified sexual crime …1976 US sl.
• SKIN BOOK
n. a sex-themed book …1970 US sl.
• SKIN BOY
n. an uncircumcised male …1999 NZ sl.
• SKIN BY
vb. to succeed by a small margin …1950 Amer. dial.
• SKIN CHIMNEY
n. the vagina …2002 UK sl.
• SKINCH
vb. to scrimp, to economize …1848 Amer. dial.
• SKINCHING
adj. stingy, frugal, niggardly …1866 Amer. dial.
• SKINCH OUT
vb. to short, to cheat …1904 Amer. dial.
• SKINCHY
adj. stingy, frugal, niggardly …1942 Amer. dial.
• SKINCHY-SCRIMPLY
adj. stingy, frugal, niggardly …1866 Amer. dial.
• SKIN-COAT
n. 1. a person’s skin …1589 obs.
n. 2. the female genitals …17C Urquhart usage
• SKIN COMPLAINT
n. a bullet wound …1982 US sl.
• SKINCY
adj. stingy, frugal, niggardly …1969 Amer. dial.
• SKIND
vb. to hasten …c1250 obs.
• SKINDER
n. gossip, slanderous rumour …1979 S. Afr.
vb. to gossip …1942 S. Afr.
• SKINDERER
n. a gossip …1993 S. Afr.
• SKINDERING
n. an act of gossiping …1981 S. Afr.
• SKIN DIVE
n. to perform cunnilingus …20C sl.
• SKIN-DIVER
n. 1. the penis …M20 US sl.
n. 2. a male copulating …M20 US sl.
n. 3. one who performs oral sex on a male; a fellator or fellatrix …1969 US sl.
n. 4. a £5 note; the sum of £5 …1988 Glasgow rhyming sl. for ‘fiver’
• SKIN-DOG
n. a lecher …M20 Can. sl.
• SKIN FIGHTING
n. a fight between members of rival gangs in which weapons or at least lethal weapons are forbidden …1967 US sl.
• SKIN FLICK
n. 1. a movie focusing on nudity or sex; a movie with nude scenes; a pornographic film or an X-rated film …1968 US sl.
n. 2. a slide used by a dermatologist to illustrate diseases during teaching rounds …1980 US sl.
• SKIN-FLICK HOUSE
n. a cinema showing pornographic films …1972 US sl.
• SKINFLINT
n. 1. a mean person …1700 UK
n. 2. a very thin person …1967 Amer. dial.
n. 3. an old, worn-out, or scrawny horse …1967 Amer. dial.
• SKINFLINTILY
adv. in a niggardly manner …1899
• SKINFLINTINESS
n. niggardliness, miserliness, parsimony …1861
• SKINFLINTISM
n. niggardliness, miserliness, parsimony …1893
• SKINFLINTY
adj. niggardly, miserly …1901
• SKIN FLUTE
n. the penis …1941 US sl.
• SKINFUL
n. 1. a full allowance; as much as one wants or cares for …a1779
n. 2. as much alcohol as one can drink …1788 sl.
• SKIN GAME
n. 1. deception, swindling, fraud …1868 US sl.
n. 2. in gambling: a rigged game that honest players always lose …1962 US sl.
n. 3. the science of dermatology …1980 US sl.
• SKINGRAFT
n. an intramuscular injection of a drug …1968 US drug culture sl.
• SKIN HABIT
n. a drug addiction based on intramuscular, not intravenous, injections …1972 US sl.
• SKINHEAD
n. 1. a member of a youth fashion and gang movement, characterized by close-cropped or shaven scalp, and smart utilitarian wear, associated with football hooliganism, racist violence, and neo-Nazism …1969 UK
n. 2. a British Leyland “Allegro” car …1981 UK citizens band radio sl.
• SKIN-HEIST
n. a rape …M20 US criminals’ sl.
• SKINHOUND
n. a sexually aggressive person …2002 Can. sl.
• SKIN HOUSE
n. 1. a brothel or place where the entertainment is of a sexual nature …1970 US sl.
n. 2. a pornographic movie theatre …M20 Amer. sl.
• SKIN IT BACK
vb. to withdraw the foreskin from the penis, either as a part of a medical inspection or masturbation …2002 US sl.
• SKINK
n. 1. a tapster or waiter …1603 rare
n. 2. ham …1630 obs.
n. 3. a skunk …1774 obs.
n. 4. drink, liquor; used contemptuously …1824 Sc.
vb. 1. to pour out or draw liquor; to offer or serve drink, etc. …c1386 arch. or Eng. dial.
vb. 2. to make a present of; to make over to another …1508 Sc. obs. rare
• SKINKARD
n. a tapster …1615 obs. rare
• SKINKER
n. 1. one who draws, pours out, or serves liquor; a tapster …1586 arch. or Eng. dial.
n. 2. the constellation Aquarius …1591 obs.
• SKINKING
adj. 1. supplying with wine …1582
adj. 2. serving liquor …1592 arch.
• SKINKLE
vb. to glitter, to glisten, to sparkle; to have a showy appearance …a1700 Sc.
• SKINKLING
adj. glittering, sparkling, glistening …1790 Sc.
• SKIN-MAG
n. a magazine featuring male or female nudes …1968 US sl.
• SKIN MAGAZINE
n. a magazine featuring photographs of nudes, usually woman …1968 US sl.
• SKIN MAN
n. a sex offender …1976 US sl.
• SKINNED
adj. having no money …1935 sl.
• SKINNEDOUT
adj. having no money …1935 sl.
• SKINNER
n. 1. one who defrauds another of their money …1856
n. 2. a big win on an unbacked horse or other race competitor; a betting coup …1874 UK sl.
n. 3. a cheat, a swindler, a dishonest person …1887 Amer. dial.
n. 4. a horse that wins a race at very long odds …1891 Aust. sl.
n. 5. a cruel teamster …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
n. 6. no money …1943 NZ sl.
n. 7. a person who doesn’t pay his bills …1950 Amer. dial.
n. 8. a police officer …1965 US sl.
n. 9. a deceitful or untrustworthy person …1967 Amer. dial.
n. 10. a lawyer …1967 Amer. dial.
n. 11. a stingy person; one who is greedy in money manners …1967 Amer. dial.
n. 12. a thin, bony or poor-looking cow or horse …1968 Amer. dial.
n. 13. a gambling cheat …1974 US sl.
n. 14. a sex offender …1976 US sl.
n. 15. gossip, slanderous rumour …1979 S. Afr.
vb. to gossip …1942 S. Afr.
• SKINNERY
n. skins or furs collectively …c1460 obs.
• SKINNING
n. 1. fleecing, plundering …1686 obs. rare
n. 2. impoverishing, exhausting …1888
• SKINNING PARLOR
n. a barber shop …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SKINNINGS
n. frothy residue skimmed from a boiling liquid; scum …1986 Amer. dial.
• SKINNISH
adj. thin; skinny …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SKINNY
adj. 1. thin …1605 sl.
adj. 2. mean, miserly, niggardly, stingy …1833
adj. 3. prepared with low-fat or non-fat milk …1997 US sl.
n. 1. a girl or a woman …E20 Aust. sl.
n. 2. an old ewe …1952 Amer. dial.
n. 3. the latest information; inside information; rumour or fact …1959 US sl.
n. 4. marijuana …M20 US drug culture sl.
n. 5. a haircut in which all of the hair is cut off or shaved …1970 Amer, dial., chiefly Black usage
n. 6. in circus and carnival usage: a ten-cent piece …1981 US sl.
n. 7. a bridegroom …1992 UK rhyming sl. (skinny as a broom)
n. 8. a Somali …1990s US military sl., derogatory
• SKINNY AS A BROOM
n. a bridegroom …1992 UK rhyming sl.
• SKINNY AS A SNAKE
adj. 1965 Amer. dial. – very thin
• SKINNY-DIP
n. a nude swim …M20 US colloq.
vb. to swim in the nude …1966 US colloq.
• SKINNY DIPPING IN THE LOVE POND
n. from a male perspective: the act of sex without a condom …2001 US sl.
• SKINNY DUGAN
n. in craps: any combination of seven …1985 US sl.
• SKINNY END
n. in horse racing: a third place finish …1989 Aust. sl.
• SKINNY-GUTS
n. a very thin person …20C Brit. sl.
• SKINNY LIZ
n. a thin girl or woman …1959 sl.
• SKINNYMALINK
adj. thin; skinny …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
n. a thin or emaciated person …1911 sl.
• SKINNYMARINK
n. a thin or emaciated person …1954 Amer. dial.
• SKINNY MERINK
n. a thin or emaciated person …1968 Amer. dial.
• SKINNY-MINNY
adj. very thin; small and thin …1997 US sl.
• SKINNY UP
vb. to climb the trunk of a tree by holding on with your legs while you pull yourself up with your hands …1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN ONE OUT OF HIS EYE TEETH
vb. to cheat, to swindle …1907 Amer. dial.
• SKIN ONE’S EYES
vb. to be vigilant, on the lookout …1860 Amer. dial.
• SKIN OUT
vb. 1. to depart hastily …1876 US sl.
vb. 2. to produce, to display …c1895 US sl.
vb. 3. to go fast …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
vb. 4. to clean something out; to finish something …1999 Can. sl.
• SKINPIX
n. pornographic films …1964 US sl.
• SKIN POP
n. an injection of a drug into the skin or muscle, not into a vein …1952 US drug culture sl.
vb. (usually as ‘skin-pop) to inject a drug into the skin or muscle, not into a vein …1952 US drug culture sl.
• SKIN POPPER
n. 1. one who injects with a drug …1953 sl.
n. 2. a drug user who does not inject the drug into a vein …1967 US sl.
• SKIN POPPING
n. shooting drugs; injecting narcotics subcutaneously, not into a vein …1973 US drug culture sl.
• SKIN-PRINTS
n. tattoo marks …1650 obs.
• SKIN-PUMP
vb. to inject a drug under the skin, not into a vein …1952 US drug culture sl.
• SKIN ROCKS
vb. to skip or skim stones on the surface of water …1966 Amer. dial.
• SKINS
n. 1. a tanner …1785 sl.
n. 2. drums …1926 UK sl.
n. 3. tires …Bk1998 sl.
• SKIN SHAKE
n. a thorough search of a person’s body, including orifices …1967 US sl.
• SKIN SHOW
n. a show featuring women approaching or reaching nudity …1973 US sl.
• SKINSMAN
n. 1. a prolific lover …1965 Barbados
n. 2. a drummer …1983 UK sl.
• SKINSTER
n. a woman who skins hides …1270 obs.
• SKIN STONES
vb. to skip or skim stones on the surface of water …1966 Amer. dial.
• SKINT
adj. having no money …1925 Brit. sl.
• SKINT AS A KIPPER’S BACKBONE
adj. having no money …1956 UK sl.
• SKIN TEETH
vb. to smile; to grin …1994 Jamaica
• SKIN THE BARK
vb. to climb a tree …1965 Amer. dial.
• SKIN THE CAT
vb. 1. to perform, on the limb of a tree or on a horizontal bar, the feat of turning the body through the suspended arms and back again …1843 Amer. dial.
vb. 2. to skip or skim stones on the surface of water …1966 Amer. dial.
vb. 3. to take off a garment in such a way as to leave it inside out …1983 Amer. dial.
vb. 4. to copulate …African-American euphemism
vb. 5. to perform oral sex on a woman …2000 US sl.
• SKIN THE LIVE RABBIT
vb. 1. to retract the prepuce of the uncircumcised male, presumably in copulation …19C Brit. sl.
vb. 2. to undress; to undress someone; to take the clothing off a child; no negative connotations …20C US sl.
• SKIN-THE-PIZZLE
n. the female genitals, spec. the vagina …19C Brit. sl.
• SKIN THE WATER
vb. to skip or skim stones on the surface of water …1966 Amer. dial.
• SKIN THROUGH
vb. to succeed by a small margin …1902 Amer. dial.
• SKIN THUMPERS
n. drumsticks …Bk1942 Amer. sl.
• SKIN-TIGHTS
n. close-fitting leg garments …1899
• SKINTITIS
n. the condition of having no money …20C Brit. jocular usage
• SKINTO
adj. having little or no money; penniless …1988 Glasgow sl.
• SKIN TRADE
n. the sex industry in all its facets …1986 US sl.
• SKIN UP
vb. 1. to expose a woman’s genitals and breasts …1986 Trinidad and Tobago
vb. 2. to roll up a marijuana cigarette …1990 UK sl.
• SKINZ
n. a sexually attractive woman …1993 US sl.
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