skins

1. the thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal.

   I use body lotion to keep my skin supple

   a flap of skin

2. the peel or outer layer of certain fruits or vegetables.

   potatoes roasted in their skins

3. a customized graphic user interface for an application or operating system.
4. a skinhead.

   we were surrounded by skins with tattoos and braces

5. (especially in jazz) a drum or drum head.
6. relating to or denoting pornographic literature or films.

   the skin trade

7. a card game in which each player has one card which they bet will not be the first to be matched by a card dealt from the pack.
8. a unit into which an Aboriginal people is divided, typically on the basis of descent, each skin being associated with a totemic bird, animal, or insect.

1. remove the skin from (an animal or a fruit or vegetable).

   scald and skin the tomatoes

   she skinned the pig and salted the carcass

2. take money from or swindle (someone).

   I ain't no dummy, and I know when I'm being skinned

3. (of a wound) form new skin.

   the hole in his skull skinned over

4. (of a player) take the ball past (a defender) with ease.

   Kanchelskis would have skinned him

5. make a cannabis cigarette.

   we had a few beers and then we skinned up

late Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn ; related to Dutch schinden ‘flay, peel’ and German schinden .