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1. n. a dollar bill. This ticket cost me a couple of skins—and it’s not worth it. You got a skin for the tollbooth?

2. and skinhead n. someone with a shaved or bald head. (Some such persons may also engage in political violence.) Who’s the skinhead with the earrings?

3. tv. to cheat or overcharge someone. The guy who sold me this car really skinned me.

See:

• a banana skin
• a thick skin
• all skin and bones
• ass in a lion's skin
• be no skin off (one's) back
• be skin and bone
• be soaked to the skin
• beauty is only skin deep
• Beauty is only skin-deep
• by the skin of (one's) teeth
• by the skin of one's teeth
• by the skin of teeth
• comfortable in (one's) own skin
• drenched to the skin
• get under skin
• get under someone's skin
• Give me five!
• Give me skin!
• Give me some skin!
• give some skin
• have a thick skin
• have a thin skin
• have skin in the game
• It's no skin off my nose
• it's no skin off nose
• jump in (one's) skin
• jump out of one's skin
• jump out of skin
• knock some skin
• knock someone some skin
• Let every man skin his own skunk
• make flesh crawl
• make one's flesh creep
• make skin
• make skin crawl
• more than one way to skin a cat
• nearly jump out of skin
• no skin off (one's) back
• no skin off one's nose
• no skin off teeth
• nothing but skin and bones and skin and bones
• play out of your skin
• save one's bacon
• save own skin
• save skin
• skin
• skin a goat
• skin alive
• skin an eel by the tail
• skin and bones
• skin flick
• skin game
• skin in the game
• Skin me!
• skin of your teeth
• skin the bear at once
• skin up
• skins
• soak to the skin
• soaked to the skin
• there are many ways to skin a cat
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• thick skin
• under the skin