| skin | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, pelt |
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| (noun) an outer surface (usually thin) | - |
| (noun) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal | - |
| (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, tegument |
| (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: peel |
| (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skinhead |
| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skinhead |
| (noun) a person's skin regarded as their life | - |
| (verb) remove the skin from | Synonyms: pare, peel |
| (verb) remove the bark of a tree | Synonyms: bark |
| (verb) bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of | Synonyms: scrape |
| (verb) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling | Synonyms: clamber, scramble, shin, shinny, sputter, struggle |
| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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| skinful | (noun) a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skinless | (adjective) having no skin | - |
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| skinned | (adjective) having skin of a specified kind | - |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| skinny | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling skin | - |
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| (adjective) giving or spending with reluctance | Synonyms: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching |
| (adjective) being very thin | Synonyms: boney, bony, scraggly, scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy |
| (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightfitting, tightly fitting |
| (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
| skint | (adjective) lacking funds | Synonyms: broke, bust, stone-broke, stony-broke |
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| skintight | (adjective) so tight as to cling to the skin | Synonyms: skin-tight |
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