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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.

Synonymsfilm, dermis, integument, tegument, peel, pericarp
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.

Synonymsbark, chafe, excoriate, graze, scrape, flay
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.

Synonymsbaldie, boot boy, bovver boy, skin, slaphead

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