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Penniless, proper not to start clinging
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skin-tight
Word definitions for skin-tight in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"fitting like skin," 1885, originally of men's clothing, from skin (n.) + tight (adj.).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Lucy in white silk Dynasty jacket, butterfly turquoise shirt, skin-tight velvet trousers, silver sandals. ▪ She also wears skin-tight red pants. ▪ The thing is it's skin-tight , and my dad thought it was obscene. ▪ There ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of skintight English)
Usage examples of skin-tight.
Every now and then, the action was intercut with guys and chicks wearing skin-tight outfits, their eyes wide as saucers, their mouths tiny ovals moving out of synch with their overdubbed English dialogue.
Growing up under the Clerics in New Singapore, she had needed some time to get used to the casual attitudes about dress among miners and finally to adopt the practical, skin-tight singlet most of them wore.
Lula was wearing a skin-tight pink stretchy T-shirt with sexy written across her boobs in silver sequins.
Across from me, Brenda was busily sketching and in a minute she showed us: a slim, leggy blonde with my hair and face, dressed in a skin-tight black bodysuit, a revolver strapped to her hip, a bow and quiver at her back, and a knife in a sheath at her calf.
It was just a costume of some sort, some skin-tight footglove or something easily explainable.
These were, essentially, elasticised leotards, skin-tight but porous, maintaining the necessary pressure on the body without the need for cumbersome armour.
And for fighting, she favored a stiff leather bodice that laced up in back, stuffed in front with stout woolen socks, and a pair of skin-tight pants, capris in the summer, with tiny slits just below the knee.
A century ago every military tailor also made and sold corsets, so that the officers might present a trim appearance in their skin-tight breeches.
In any other man she would have ruthlessly condemned so absurdly waisted a coat, so monstrous a cravat, such skin-tight pantaloons, but Peregrine was very much her darling, and must be allowed to dress himself up in any dandified way he pleased.
Spaceships and skin-tight uniforms, ray guns, Martians with the bodies of giant squids, that sort of thing.
Miss Massingham reminded herself that this elegant gentleman, with his great shoulders setting off a coat of blue superfine, and his shapely leg encased in a skin-tight pantaloon and a Hessian boot of dazzling gloss, was the bouncing baby on whom, thirty years before, she had bestowed a coral rattle.
There was a carefully chosen hint of kzinrret too, in the watered-silk pattern of her skin-tight trousers (there were costumes available with hints of tails, but that, she had decided, would have been definitely over-egging the pudding).
Every now and then, the action was intercut with guys and chicks wearing skin-tight outfits, their eyes wide as saucers, their mouths tiny ovals moving out of synch with their overdubbed English dialogue.
They were dressed in brilliant yellow - yellow boots, skin-tight trousers, neat jackets and skull caps.
Then she struggled into skin-tight black imi-tation-snakeskin stirrup pants, and over these she pulled on a pair of puffy silver boots that fastened with velcro and were designed to have an astronaut look.