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skin

/skɪn/

noun

Meaning

  • The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.

    "He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl."

  • The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.

  • The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.

  • A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.

    "In order to get to the rest of the paint in the can, you′ll have to remove the skin floating on top of it."

  • A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.

    "You can use this skin to change how the browser looks."

  • An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.

  • Rolling paper for cigarettes.

    "Pass me a skin, mate."

  • A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.

  • Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.

    "Let me see a bit of skin."

  • A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.

  • That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.

  • 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.

  • A drink of whisky served hot.

  • Person, chap

    "He was a decent old skin."

Synonyms

film,
dermis,
integument,
tegument,
peel,
pericarp,
hide,
pelt,
moiety,
section,
subsection

verb

Meaning

  • To injure the skin of.

  • To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.

  • To high five.

  • To apply a skin to (a computer program).

    "Can I skin the application to put the picture of my cat on it?"

  • To use tricks to go past a defender.

  • To become covered with skin.

    "A wound eventually skins over."

  • To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.

  • To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.

  • To strip of money or property; to cheat.

Synonyms

bark,
chafe,
excoriate,
graze,
scrape,
flay,
fleece,
flense,
scalp

noun

Meaning

  • Someone with a shaved head.

  • Member of the skinhead subculture arising in late 1960s England or its diaspora, often incorrectly associated with violence and white-supremacist or anti-immigrant principles.

Synonyms

baldie,
boot boy,
bovver boy,
skin,
slaphead