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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishskinny(“resembling skin”), equivalent toskin +‎-y. The meaning associated with lack of fat or muscle possibly derives from the phraseskin and bones; the meaning associated with nudity refers to the exposed skin.

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Adjective

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skinny (comparativeskinnier,superlativeskinniest)

  1. (informal)Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed toslim, which is thin in a positive sense).
    Her recent weight loss has made her look ratherskinny than slender
  2. (informal, of food or beverages) Having reducedfat orcalories.
    • 1974, National Fruit & Syrup Manufacturers Assn,Dairy & ice cream field, Volume 157, Issues 1-6‎[1] (cooking), page45:
      ...into theskinny chocolate milk?
    • 1982, Mykola Ponedilok,Funny tears: short stories (history),page186:
      Also bring me three quarts of ‘skinny’ milk. What the matter, Mr. Kuziavka, have you just fallen from the moon?! Don't you know about ‘skinny’ milk? It's milk, from which the fat has been removed and...
    • 2008, Sydney Bauer,Undertow (fiction),→ISBN,page387:
      “All right,” said Katz, who, waiting on hisskinny milk latte, turned to snap his fingers at the only waiter in the room.
    • 2019,Fancy AF Cocktails‎[2]:
      People always order a "skinny" margarita without knowing exactly what that means for the ingredients.Skinny means the cocktail has a natural sweetener like lime juice or agave nectar, and none of that slushy, syrupy sweet-and-sour mix.
  3. Naked;nude (chiefly used in the phraseskinny dipping).
    • 1972, Robert Woodruff Anderson,Solitaire: Double solitaire, page53:
      Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimmingskinny.
    • 2000, Linda Rogers,Say my name: the memoirs of Charlie Louie, page25:
      We never swamskinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.
    • 1994, Geoffrey Atheling Wagner,A singular passion: a novel, page200:
      When I went in again, the desirable alien was in bed with eyelids closed [...], obviously sleepingskinny, to employ her own term for it.
    • 2007, Weston P. Hatfield,The Governor's Choice, page20:
      with stimulative sybaritic aids ranging from a mountain sunset to a dip —skinny or otherwise — in a heated pool
    • 2008, Kitty Crockett Robertson,Measuring Time - By an Hourglass, page220:
      She used to swim "skinny" in Sprague's cove in broad daylight, leaving her bathing dress on the float.
  4. (of clothing)Tight-fitting.
    skinny jeans
  5. (golf)Synonym ofthin(“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”)

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thin

Noun

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skinny (pluralskinnies)

  1. (colloquial) Thedetails orfacts; especially, those obtained bygossip orrumor.
    She called to get theskinny on the latest goings-on in the club.
  2. A state of nakedness;nudity.
    • 2004, Mr. Skin,Mr. Skin's Skincyclopedia, page34:
      Again, she appears nude whilst dipping in theskinny, but this time, instead of being eaten by a shark or a bear, she encounters a Japanese submarine
    • 2009, Susan Wittig Albert,Wormwood, page90:
      "Nobody would bother peeking these days," she saidruefully, "in bathing suits or in theskinny."
  3. (informal) A low-fat serving ofcoffee.
  4. (nonstandard) A skinny being.
    • 1959, Robert Heinlein,Starship Troopers, page10:
      "Either askinny had judged (correctly) that it was worth one of their buildings to try for one of us, or one of my own mates was getting mighty careless with fireworks" .."A congregation in church — askinny flophouse — maybe even their defense headquarters. All I knew was that it was a very big room filled with moreskinnies than I wanted to see in my whole life."
  5. Anobstacle for ahorse to jump over, consisting of anarrowfence.

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A skinny person
the details or facts

Verb

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skinny (third-person singular simple presentskinnies,present participleskinnying,simple past and past participleskinnied)

  1. (transitive, informal) Toreduce orcut down.
    • 1982,Ward's Auto World, volume18, numbers1-6, page65:
      Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others areskinnying down.
    • 1996, Kevin Dowd,Getting Connected: The Internet at 56K and Up, page25:
      By the end of the chapter, we will have (hopefully)skinnied the list of contenders further (perhaps there will be none left).
    • 2001,Bankruptcy Court Decisions (volume 38, page A-7)
      Said one judge: "What is [Chapter 22] other than the process ofskinnying the company down? Are there some inefficiencies in that? If so, they can be absorbed by the economy and the country."

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