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Short of muscle and short of money having spent time by US city
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skinny
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner" [also: skinniest , skinnier ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context informal English) Having little flesh and fat; slim; slender; narrow; thin, generally beyond what looks beautiful. 2 (context informal of food or beverages English) Low-fat. 3 naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping). n. 1 (context ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "resembling skin," from skin (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "lean, emaciated" is recorded from c.1600. Of clothes, "tight-fitting" by 1970. In the noun sense of "the truth" it is World War II military slang, perhaps from the notion of the "naked" truth. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
SKINNY is a directing team based in Los Angeles that specializes in commercials and music videos . It is composed of David Hache and Marc-Edouard Leon . In 2008, SKINNY signed to the acclaimed music video and commercial production company Partizan .
Usage examples of skinny.
She was beautiful in a neutral way, emitting no light, defining herself in terms of attrition, a skinny thing, near blond, far beyond recall from the hard-edged rhythms of her Me, Southwestern woman, hard to remember and forget.
Bean sleeping bag 4,000 feet up in a frosty meadow thirty miles south of Lake Tahoe wrapped around a skinny naked thirty-something beardy professor of mathematics from a fairly undistinguished new university who has always been a hell of a lot luckier at cards than at love?
He saw the ladies and child huddled on the floor, a portly older man in a loud suit curled up in a ball on one seat and a skinny, bespectacled man in an expensive suit nervously fingering a pair of canes by the far window.
The Skinny Ben litigation was so lucrative because the evidence was so easy.
Lo Manto pulled a wooden chair away from the Formica table and sat down, his eyes on the skinny man, his back to the three others.
Lo Manto kept his eyes on the skinny man and then slid off his chair and lifted the Formica table by the two front legs and swung it around the room, using it as a shield.
Lo Manto looked past the skinny man and down into the tight backyard three floors down.
On the way out of the room, the skinny guy paused to shove Marvin Meskin back.
He is a classic bearded, pale, skinny hacker, trying to beef himself up by wearing a bulky silk windbreaker blazoned with the logo of one of the big Metaverse amusement parks.
Zoradeh out of his mind as he wished he could pull the whole of her misbegotten face and skinny body out of his life as well.
Like a general moving his troops, Clay assigned two lawyers and a paralegal to the Skinny Ben front.
To make the philtre visually engaging, Tre had deformed the two basic polyhedra into a pair of shapes which resembled a skinny chicken and a fat dodo bird.
Shadow stifled a cry and then relaxed as he saw the bird soaring away, one foot down with Potro sitting on it, holding on to the leg, his own skinny legs sticking out in front.
When they could, they downed wily pronghorn antelope, skinny mule deer, and shaggy wild horses.
If Ellis Loew got ahold of the dope he would probably quash it along with the skinny on Betty as a part-time prostie, so I decided to omit it from the report and give the information verbally to Russ Millard.