WordNet
n. skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros)
Wikipedia
Thick skin can refer to:
- The ability to withstand criticism.
- Literally thick skin covering the body of an animal, such as an elephant or rhinoceros.
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Callus, an area of thickened skin
- Callus (disambiguation), similar uses of Callus such as a lack of empathy (callousness).
- Thick Skinned, a 1989 French film
- "Thick Skin", a song by Leona Lewis from I Am
Usage examples of "thick skin".
When he thinks of Hal his heart beats and his forehead's thick skin becomes wrinkled.
After growing up under her mother's frequent reproach, Norma had a thick skin for insults.
Brashen snarled at the boy as frequently as he praised him, but his stint as a slave had given him a thick skin.
Men with great endowments of brawn and metabolism leapt from dying mounts, charged into battle, long-handled horseman's warhammers rising and falling, chopping into the thick skin of reavers.
Slowly this rose, revealing two perfectly round eyes below which they saw, as the whole came up, no proper nose, but two air-slits side by side as if the whole of the bare, enormous skull was covered with a simple sheet of thick skin.
A streak of white heat, electric energy, slammed down from the sky and sliced through the bony plates and the thick skin and seared the inner organs.
The land itself was more broken here, the gentle roll giving way to sharp-walled drainage gullies and channels, to upthrust hillsides revealing banded sandstone beneath the frozen, thick skin of peat.
Stripeskull's muscles bulged, and Longtusk had no doubt he would be able to hurl that stick hard enough to slice right through Longtusk's thick skin.
He aimed for the fold of thick skin under the throat that marked the frontal aiming point for the heart and its complex of arteries and blood vessels.