skinny

adjective

1. 1

   informalThin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).

   Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender

2. 2

   informalOf food or a beverage, having reduced fat or calories.

   skinny flat white

   ...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.

3. 3

   Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).

   Let's take our clothes oft" and go swimming skinny.

   We never swam skinny in the river like the hippy kids on the farm across the railway tracks.

   When I went in again, the desirable alien was in bed with eyelids closed [...], obviously sleeping skinny, to employ her own term for it.

   with stimulative sybaritic aids ranging from a mountain sunset to a dip — skinny or otherwise — in a heated pool

4. 4

   Tight-fitting.

   skinny jeans

5. 5

   Synonym of thin (“type of shot where the ball is struck by the bottom part of the club head”).

noun

1. 1

   The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.

   She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.

2. 2

   A state of nakedness; nudity.

   Again, she appears nude whilst dipping in the skinny, but this time, instead of being eaten by a shark or a bear, she encounters a Japanese submarine

   "Nobody would bother peeking these days," she said ruefully, "in bathing suits or in the skinny."

3. 3

   informalA low-fat serving of coffee.

4. 4

   A skinny being.

   "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."

5. 5

   An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of a narrow fence.

verb

1. 1

   informalTo reduce or cut down.

   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."

Forms

plural

skinnies

comparative

skinnier

superlative

skinniest

past tense

skinnied

past participle

skinnied

present participle

skinnying

third person singular

skinnies