[skɪn], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the thin layer of tissue forming the natural outer covering of the body of a person or animal
(e.g: I use body lotion to keep my skin supple)

- the peel or outer layer of certain fruits or vegetables
(e.g: potatoes roasted in their skins)

- a customized graphic user interface for an application or operating system

- a skinhead
(e.g: we were surrounded by skins with tattoos and braces)

- (especially in jazz) a drum or drum head

- relating to or denoting pornographic literature or films
(e.g: the skin trade)

- a card game in which each player has one card which they bet will not be the first to be matched by a card dealt from the pack

- a unit into which an Aboriginal people is divided, typically on the basis of descent, each skin being associated with a totemic bird, animal, or insect


Phrases:
- a thick skin
- a thin skin
- be skin and bone
- by the skin of one's teeth
- get under someone's skin
- give someone skin
- have skin in the game
- it's no skin off my nose
- keep a whole skin
- make someone's skin crawl
- skin and blister
- skin teeth
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- under the skin

Origin:
late Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn; related to Dutch schinden ‘flay, peel’ and German schinden

[skɪn], (Verb)

Definitions:
- remove the skin from (an animal or a fruit or vegetable)
(e.g: scald and skin the tomatoes)

- take money from or swindle (someone)
(e.g: I ain't no dummy, and I know when I'm being skinned)

- (of a wound) form new skin
(e.g: the hole in his skull skinned over)

- (of a player) take the ball past (a defender) with ease
(e.g: Kanchelskis would have skinned him)

- make a cannabis cigarette
(e.g: we had a few beers and then we skinned up)


Phrases:
- a thick skin
- a thin skin
- be skin and bone
- by the skin of one's teeth
- get under someone's skin
- give someone skin
- have skin in the game
- it's no skin off my nose
- keep a whole skin
- make someone's skin crawl
- skin and blister
- skin teeth
- there's more than one way to skin a cat
- under the skin

Origin:
late Old English scinn, from Old Norse skinn; related to Dutch schinden ‘flay, peel’ and German schinden