skinny
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Is skinny a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (informal) Thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).Examples: "Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender"informal
2. (informal) Of food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories.Examples: "...into the skinny chocolate milk?"; "Also bring me three quarts of ‘skinny’ milk. What the matter, Mr. Kuziavka, have you just fallen from the moon?! Don't you know about ‘skinny’ milk? It's milk, from which the fat has been removed and..."; "“All right,” said Katz, who, waiting on his skinny milk latte, turned to snap his fingers at the only waiter in the room."informal
3. (of clothing) Tight-fitting.Examples: "skinny jeans"
4. (golf) Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”).Synonyms: thin
noun (English)
1. (colloquial) The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.Examples: "She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club."colloquial
2. (informal) A low-fat serving of coffee.informal
3. (nonstandard) A skinny being.Examples: ""Either a skinny had judged (correctly) that it was worth one of their buildings to try for one of us, or one of my own mates was getting mighty careless with fireworks" .."A congregation in church — a skinny flophouse — maybe even their defense headquarters. All I knew was that it was a very big room filled with more skinnies than I wanted to see in my whole life.""nonstandard
verb (English)
1. (transitive, informal) To reduce or cut down.Examples: "Like an accordion at a country wedding producing sweet-and-sour notes, some importers are expanding their U.S. retail automotive operations while others are skinnying down."; "By the end of the chapter, we will have (hopefully) skinnied the list of contenders further (perhaps there will be none left)."; "Said one judge: "What is [Chapter 22] other than the process of skinnying the company down? Are there some inefficiencies in that? If so, they can be absorbed by the economy and the country.""informaltransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary