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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skinny
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
▪ The animals must not be diseased, too old or too skinny.
▪ They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
▪ I was too skinny to wear the smallest weight belt.
■ NOUN
leg
▪ This was Olga - even to her skinny legs!
▪ Her skinny legs and swollen ankles, covered with white stockings, rest unnaturally on the footrests of her chair.
man
▪ Here was this skinny man, unafraid, in the midst of all this danger.
▪ I stopped, and the skinny man heard me and turned, Unmistakable.
▪ He looked up, expecting to see the grey skinny man staring down at him from the steps.
▪ A tall, skinny man, with a soft voice that sometimes strikes the court as coming from behind his left ear.
▪ A skinny man who looked as if he didn't sleep nights.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
skinny little kids
▪ a skinny kid with glasses
▪ I was really skinny when I was a teenager.
▪ Jacob placed his arm around her skinny shoulders.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By the time I'd recovered I was skinnier than ever, having been rationed to an orange a day.
▪ Even in a bulky warm-up suit, sitting hunched over the handlebars, she looks skinny.
▪ He had startlingly blue eyes and dark tumbling curls over his forehead; a narrow face; a skinny body.
▪ I would be a skinny person.
▪ They knew Amelia was too skinny to avoid the gas chamber.
▪ They strain every muscle as they pedal; their bodies glisten with sweat; all are skinny, some wasted.
▪ Think skinny asparagus spears with broccoli tops.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skinny

Skinny \Skin"ny\, a. Consisting, or chiefly consisting, of skin; wanting flesh. ``Her skinny lips.''
--Shak.

He holds him with a skinny hand.
--Coleridge.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
skinny

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. Related: skinniness.

Wiktionary
skinny

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 colloquial English) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor. 2 A state of nakedness; nudity. 3 (cx informal English) A low-fat serving of coffee. 4 A skinny being.

WordNet
skinny
  1. adj. having unattractive thinness; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck" [syn: scraggy, scrawny, underweight, weedy]

  2. [also: skinniest, skinnier]

skinny
  1. n. confidential information about a topic or person; "he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"

  2. [also: skinniest, skinnier]

Wikipedia
Skinny

Skinny can mean:

Skinny (novel)

Skinny is the debut novel by Hungarian- Canadian author Ibi Kaslik, first published by HarperCollins in May 2004. It appeared on the New York Times best sellers list for two consecutive weeks in 2008.

Skinny (band)

Skinny were an English electronica band which released two albums over a course of four years. Their most successful song, "Failure", was included on both albums.

Skinny (They Can't Get Enough)

Skinny (They Can't Get Enough) is the third and final studio album by rap group The Skinny Boys. It was released in 1988 for Jive Records, distributed by RCA Records and was produced by Mark Bush. Skinny (They Can't Get Enough) peaked at #71 on the Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums.

SKINNY (directing team)

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.

Skinny (rapper)

Skinny (stylized as $kinny) (born March 16, 1988) is an American hip hop artist born in Saudi Arabia. He is the Founder and CEO of 'Feed Me Entertainment' and Floos Gang. Skinny not only made a name for himself as a hip hop artist but he also is known for his unique production sound and melodic song writing. He later landed a writer/producer deal with Warner/Chappell Music and released his debut mixtape ”Ghetto Disneyland” on April 7, 2014

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.