Usually means: Body's outer protective covering layer.
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We found 71 dictionaries that define the word skin:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. skin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. skin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Skin, skin: Wordnik
  7. -skin, skin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Skin: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. skin: Wiktionary
  10. skin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. skin: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. skin: Dictionary.com
  14. skin (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. skin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Skin (Breaking Benjamin song), Skin (British band), Skin (Dekker novel), Skin (Flume album), Skin (Japanese band), Skin (Katie Noonan album), Skin (Marvel Comics), Skin (Melissa Etheridge album), Skin (Mo Hayder novel), Skin (Peter Hammill album), Skin (R. Kelly song), Skin (Rag'n'Bone Man song), Skin (Rihanna song), Skin (Sarabeth), Skin (Skin album), Skin (TV series), Skin (US band), Skin (Westworld album), Skin (aeronautics), Skin (computer), Skin (computing), Skin (disambiguation), Skin (graphic novel), Skin (musician), Skin (short story), Skin (singer), Skin (software), Skin, The Skin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Skin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. skin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. skin: Rhymezone
  20. skin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. skin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SKIN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Skin: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. skin: Free Dictionary
  25. skin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. skin: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. skin: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. skin: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  29. skin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skin: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. skin: Netlingo
  2. skin: CCI Computer
  3. Skin: Game Dictionary
  4. Skin: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. Skin (computing), skin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Skin: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Skin: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Skin: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. skin: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  9. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)
  10. skin: Medical dictionary
  11. Skin: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SKIN: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. skin: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin, skin: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skin: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. skin: The Folk File
  5. S.K.I.N, THE skin, s.k.i.n: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Composite Terms (No longer online)
  5. The Stamp Store Glossary (concrete) (No longer online)
  6. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  8. Skin: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See skinless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the body of any animal, including of a human.
noun:  (uncountable) The outer protective layer of the fruit of a plant.
noun:  (countable) The skin and fur of an individual animal used by humans for clothing, upholstery, etc.
noun:  (countable) A congealed layer on the surface of a liquid.
noun:  (countable, computing, graphical user interface) A set of resources that modifies the appearance and/or layout of the graphical user interface of a computer program.
noun:  (countable, video games) An alternate appearance (texture map or geometry) for a character model in a video game.
noun:  (countable, slang) Rolling paper for cigarettes.
noun:  (Australia) A subgroup of Australian aboriginal people; such divisions are cultural and not related to an individual′s physical skin.
noun:  (slang) Bare flesh, particularly bare breasts.
noun:  A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids.
noun:  (nautical) That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
noun:  (nautical) The covering, as of planking or iron plates, outside the framing, forming the sides and bottom of a vessel; the shell; also, a lining inside the framing.
noun:  (aviation) The outer surface covering much of the wings and fuselage of an aircraft.
noun:  A drink of whisky served hot.
noun:  (slang, Ireland, British) person, chap
noun:  (UK, thieves slang, obsolete) A purse.
verb:  (transitive) To injure the skin of.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human.
verb:  (colloquial) To high five.
verb:  (transitive, computing, colloquial) To apply a skin to (a computer program).
verb:  (UK, soccer, transitive) To use tricks to go past a defender.
verb:  (intransitive) To become covered with skin.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with skin, or as if with skin; hence, to cover superficially.
verb:  (US, slang, archaic) To produce, in recitation, examination, etc., the work of another for one's own, or to use cribs, memoranda, etc., which are prohibited.
verb:  (slang, dated) To strip of money or property; to cheat.
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete, slang) To sneak off.
noun:  (countable, slang) Clipping of skinhead. [Someone with a shaved head.]

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