"skinny" in the noun sense
1. skinny
confidential information about a topic or person
"he wanted the inside skinny on the new partner"
"skinny" in the adjective sense
1. scraggy, scraggly, boney, bony, scrawny, skinny, underweight, weedy
being very thin
"a child with skinny freckled legs"
"a long scrawny neck"
"pale bony hands"
2. skinny
of or relating to or resembling skin
3. tight-fitting, tightfitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting, skinny
fitting snugly
"a tightly-fitting cover"
"tight-fitting clothes"
4. cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny
giving or spending with reluctance
"our cheeseparing administration"
"very close (or near) with his money"
"a penny-pinching miserly old man"
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