Usually means: Very thin, especially unusually so.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. skinny, the skinny: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. skinny, skinny, the skinny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skinny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skinny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skinny, the skinny: Vocabulary.com
  6. Skinny, skinny: Wordnik
  7. skinny: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. skinny: Wiktionary
  9. skinny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. skinny: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. skinny: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skinny, the skinny: Dictionary.com
  13. skinny (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. skinny: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SKINNY (Directing Team), Skinny (band), Skinny (novel), Skinny (rapper), Skinny, The Skinny (film), The Skinny (magazine), The Skinny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Skinny: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. skinny: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. skinny, the skinny: Rhymezone
  19. skinny: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. skinny: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. skinny, the skinny: Free Dictionary
  22. skinny, the skinny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Skinny: The Word Detective
  24. skinny, the skinny: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. Skinny: World Wide Words
  26. skinny: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skinny, the skinny: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skinny: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skinny (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny, skinny: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. skinny: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Skinny: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. the skinny: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See skinnier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
adjective:  (informal, of food or beverages) Having reduced fat or calories.
adjective:  Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
adjective:  (of clothing) Tight-fitting.
adjective:  (golf) Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)
noun:  (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
noun:  A state of nakedness; nudity.
noun:  (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.
noun:  (nonstandard) A skinny being.
noun:  An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a narrow fence.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To reduce or cut down.

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