Skin

/skɪn/

noun

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

    He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.

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

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

Synonyms: film, dermis, integument, tegument, peel, pericarp, hide, pelt

verb

  1. To injure the skin of.

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

  3. To high five.

Synonyms: bark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape, flay, fleece, flense

noun

  1. Someone with a shaved head.

  2. 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

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