1. A natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
   "your skin is the largest organ of your body"; "The skin is the largest tegument of the human body";
   - tegument, cutis
    
2. Body covering of a living animal
   "The tiger's skin was striped and sleek";
   - hide, pelt
    
3. An outer surface (usually thin)
   "the skin of an aeroplane"
    
4. The rind of a fruit or vegetable
   "She grated the lemon skin for the cake recipe";
   - peel
    
5. A bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal
   "The nomads carried water in goatskin skins across the desert"
    
6. A person's skin regarded as their life
   "he tried to save his skin"
    
7. A layer that forms on the surface of a liquid or semi-solid as it cools
   "A skin had formed on top of the pudding"
    
8. (computing) a collection of colour schemes, sounds, artwork, etc, used in the interface of a computer program, usually interchangeably
   "He downloaded a new skin for his media player to give it a fresh look";
   - theme
    
9. [informal] A member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent
   "Not all skins subscribe to racist ideologies, but the stereotype persists";
   - skinhead
    
10. [informal] A person whose head is bald or shaved
    "The skin wore heavy boots and a leather jacket";
    - baldhead [informal], baldpate, baldy [informal], skinhead, baldie [informal]

1. Remove the skin from
   "skin apples";
   - peel, pare
    
2. Bruise, cut, or injure the skin or the surface of
   "The boy skinned his knee when he fell";
   - scrape
    
3. Remove the bark of a tree
   "They skinned the trunk for its valuable bark";
   - bark
    
4. [informal] Charge an excessive or unfair price
   "The unscrupulous dealer skinned the buyer on the car's price";
   - overcharge, soak [informal], surcharge, fleece [informal], pluck [informal], rob, rip off [informal], gouge [informal]
    
5. [Brit, informal] Roll and smoke cannabis
   "They went to the park to skin";
   - skin up [Brit, informal]
    
6. Form an outer layer of some harder material, esp. due to cooling
   "custard skins over when cold";
   - skin over

Derived forms: skinning, skins, skinned

Type of: actor, aliveness, animation, bag, body covering, bully, cheat, chisel [informal], connective tissue, doer, hooligan, injure, life, living, ned [UK, informal], rind, rip off [informal], roughneck [informal], rowdy, ruffian, scally [UK, informal], strip, surface, tough [informal], worker, wound, yob [Brit, informal], yobbo [Brit, informal], yobo [Brit, informal]

Part of: aircraft, bootboys [UK], edible fruit, integumentary system, skinheads

Encyclopedia: Skin