skin

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

• He is so disgusting he makes my skin crawl.

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

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

• you know good leather, you know the best way to tan the hides and where to find the best skins

A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.countable

• 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.
• Do you eat the skin on custard?

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

• 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.countable

• My friend likes to use a Spider-Man skin in Fortnite.

Rolling paper for cigarettes.countableslang

• Pass me a skin, mate.

Clipping of skinhead.abbreviationalt-ofclipping

• By the end of the show, fights would break out all over the place: the Atlantic City skins against the crew from Philly; the oldschool skinheads feuding with overzealous fresh-cuts.

A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people.Australiacountableuncountable

• The younger brother questions the correctness of the pursuit of the girls. "They may be of the wrong subsection," he suggests. "We can take wrong skins," says the older brother, but the younger still holds back.

Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.countableslanguncountable

• Let me see a bit of skin.

To injure the skin of.transitive

• He fell off his bike and skinned his knee on the concrete.

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

To high five.colloquial

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

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

To use tricks to go past a defender.UKtransitive

• The Russian, sometimes out of sorts in recent weeks, was seeing plenty of the ball on the left-hand side up against Hunt, a 20-year-old right-back making his first Huddersfield start. Arshavin skinned the youngster at the first opportunity

To become covered with skin or a skin-like layer.intransitive

• A wound eventually skins over.
• Leftover acrylic paint will often skin as it partially dries.

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

• It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

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

To strip of money or property; to cheat.datedslang

To sneak off.intransitiveobsoleteslang