Usually means: Miserly person, extremely tight with money.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word skinflint:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. skinflint: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skinflint: Merriam-Webster
  3. skinflint: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skinflint: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skinflint: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skinflint: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skinflint, skinflint: Wordnik
  8. skinflint: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skinflint: Wiktionary
  10. skinflint: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skinflint: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. skinflint: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. skinflint: Dictionary.com
  14. skinflint: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Skinflint (band), Skinflint, The Skinflint: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Skinflint: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. skinflint: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. skinflint: Rhymezone
  19. Skinflint: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. skinflint: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Skinflint: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. skinflint: FreeDictionary.org
  23. skinflint: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Skinflint: The Word Detective
  25. skinflint: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skinflint: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skinflint (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. skinflint: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. skinflint: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  One who is excessively stingy or cautious with money; a tightwad; a miser.

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