Definition of "skin"

skin

/skɪn/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural skins
1. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
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  Her skin is pale like chicken skin, after you have peel[ed] all the feathers.
  2020, Abi Daré, The Girl With The Louding Voice, Sceptre, page 184
2. (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
3. (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
4. (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
5. (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
6. (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
7. (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
8. (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead.
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  By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.
  2017, Christian Picciolini, White American Youth
9. (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
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  The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls. "They may be of the wrong subsection," he suggests. "We can take wrong skins," says the older brother, but the younger still holds back.
  1984, Maxwell John Charlesworth, Howard Morphy, Diane Bell, Religion in Aboriginal Australia: An Anthology, page 361
10. (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
11. A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
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  the Bacchic train,Who brought their skins of wine, and loaded polesThat bent with mighty clusters of black grapes
  1843, Richard Henry Horne, Orion
12. (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
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  The skin of the sail is made of stretch-resistant Mylar
  , “Textile Technology Digest”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)
13. (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
14. (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
15. A drink of whisky served hot.
16. (slang, Ireland, Britain) person, chap
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  PAUDI:”I fucking love the pair of ye! You’re good lads. You’re loyal skins”
  2019, Joe Murragh, Colin Barrett, 54:50 from the start, in Calm With Horses (film), spoken by Paudi (Ned Dennehy)
17. (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.
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  […] and away I scampered with the tiddlywink-table, while Teddy Limber […] frisked the yokel of his yack and skin.
  1863, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of the Court of London, volume 3, page 86
verb
third-person singular simple present skins, present participle skinning, simple past and past participle skinned
1. (transitive) To injure the skin of.
2. (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
3. (colloquial) To high five.
4. (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
5. (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
  Quotations
  The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity and crossed for Bendtner, who could not direct his close-range effort on target.
  2011 January 30, Kevin Darlng, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Huddersfield”, in BBC‎
6. (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
7. (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
  Quotations
  It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.
  c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iv]
8. (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
9. (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
10. (intransitive, obsolete, slang) To sneak off.

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