Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

(Amelia) #1
Was my cooking so bad that everybody
had to skin a goat?

skin flickn. a movie featuring nudity. (See
also nudie.) We took in a skin f lick
when we were in the city. Max likes skin
f licks better than real girls.


skinful n. an intoxicating quantity of
liquor; enough liquor. (See also have a
skinful.) He’s got a skinful and can’t
drive. She knows enough to stop drink-
ing before she gets a skinful.


skin gamen. any swindle. (Underworld.)
Ziggy was mixed up in a skin game for
a while. The con running the skin game
got out of town.


skinheadGo to skin.


Skin me!exclam. Give me some skin!;
Shake my hand! (Originally black.) 
Hey, man, skin me! Hey, old buddy.
Don’t walk on! Skin me!


skinnyGo to (hot) skinny.


skinny dip 1. in. to swim in the nude. 
We used to go skinny dipping when I was
a kid. There was an old creek on the
farm where we used to skinny dip. 2. n. a
swim in the nude. A nice skinny dip in
a quiet glade takes you back to nature. 
Randy, who fears fish, didn’t take a skinny
dip with the others.


skinsn. drums. (Musicians. The same as
hides.) Andy can really make the skins
talk. Buddy could beat those skins like
nobody’s business.


skin-searchn. a search of the naked body
by legal authorities. (See also strip-
search.) These clowns were actually do-
ing skin-searches on traffic offenders! 
Aren’t there laws against frivolous skin-
searches?


Skip it!exclam. Forget it!; Never mind! 
I won’t bother you with my question again.
Skip it! Oh, skip it! It doesn’t matter.


skip (out)in. to leave; to run away with-
out doing something, such as paying a
bill. The guy skipped when I wasn’t
looking. Fred skipped out, leaving me
with the bill.


skirtn. a woman. Some skirt comes up
to me and asks where the police station is.
Who’s the skirt I saw you with last
night?
skivvies[“skIviz] n. underpants; under-
wear. He stood there chattering in his
skivvies waiting for additional indignities.
I don’t have any clean skivvies!
sko and sgo[“sko and “sgo] in. Let’s go.
(Now considered current slang even
though it has been informal colloquial
for decades.) Sko. We’re going to be late.
It’s time to hit the road. Sgo.
skoshmod. a bit more. I need a skosh
more room. Move down a skosh so I can
sit down.
skrag[skrAg] tv. to murder someone. (Un-
derworld.) These thugs tried to skrag
me, I swear. Barlowe wanted to skrag
him right then and there.
skrilla and skrilln. money. I’m totally
outa skrilla, man. Shot to the curb.
skrungy[“skr@ndZi] mod. disgusting. 
What is this skrungy stuff they are serv-
ing here? That movie was too skrungy
for me.
skull-buster and skull-popper 1. n. a dif-
ficult course in school or college. The
course was a skull-buster, and I had to
drop it. All the courses in that depart-
ment are skull-busters. 2. n. a police of-
ficer. Two skull-busters came up and
started asking questions. Watc h out for
the skull-buster over there.
skullduggery[“sk@l”d@g#i] n. deceitful do-
ings; dirty work. It took a lot of skull-
duggery to bring it off, but that was no
problem for Janice. Without skulldug-
gery, politics wouldn’t be interesting.
skulledmod. alcohol or drug intoxicated.
He’s too skulled to drive. He had
got himself skulled in less than twenty
minutes.
skull-popperGo to skull-buster.
skunk 1. n. a mean and hateful person. (See
also polecat; stinker.) What a skunk!
Must you be such a skunk in front of my
friends? 2. tv. to outwit someone. I

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