skinny

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Same reason fast food commercials always show skinny people.

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Quick take

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of skinny gathered in one view.

noun

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

adjective

being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

adjective

of or relating to or resembling skin

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for skinny.

noun

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

adjective

being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

See also: scraggy, boney, scrawny, underweight, weedy

adjective

of or relating to or resembling skin

adjective

fitting snugly; "a tightly-fitting cover"; "tight-fitting clothes"

adjective

giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man"

See also: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching

Example sentences

Same reason fast food commercials always show skinny people.

Tech isn't the skinny schoolboy getting picked on by the big kids--it's the behemoth.

Due to the tall, skinny geometric, you can plop food in non-ziploc bags and use those to cook you Mellow.

We mock the ugly/short/gay/fat/skinny/weak because those are qualities that we ourselves do not wish to have.

The life of skinny dipping, cross-dressing, and acting like an idiot, all without the aid of alcohol, aptly describes my own.

Aaah, the skinny hipster programmer sipping a latte is kind'o new. I recall sitting in a conference room with a bunch of programmers not to long ago and ~80% fit the description of the article.

Many of us skinny introverted geeks have had to find a way to counter the slings and arrows of ugly decision-making by perception with a hacker's solution: maintain the data to counter the perception.

Heres the real skinny: In 2006, Congress mandated that the Postal Service prefund future retiree health benefits for the next 75 years, and do so within a decadesomething no other public agency or private firm does.

There was a lot of hype about the best new testing methods with RSpec and this new thing called Cucumber, 100% paired programming all the time, 100% TDD, and 110% test coverage, fat-model, skinny-controller, decorators and service-based architectures, and on and on.