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1. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › the skinnyThe skinny Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   4 days ago · The meaning of THE SKINNY is the true information about someone or something that is not known by most people. How to use the skinny in a sentence.

2. www.grammarphobia.com › blog › 2011What’s the skinny? - Grammarphobia

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   Jan 23, 2011 · The word “skinny,” by the way, didn’t refer to a scrawny person or animal when it entered English as an adjective around 1400. The earliest citations in the OED use “skinny” to mean covered with skin, affecting the skin, looking like skin, and perhaps even having beautiful skin.

3. www.waywordradio.org › the-skinny-the-informationGetting the Skinny on “the Skinny” Meaning “the Details”

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   Oct 17, 2022 · Brian in Dallas, Texas, wants to know the origin of the skinny as in “all the details and information.” This expression may go all the way back to slang used at the U.S. Naval Academy in the early 1900s. This is part of a complete episode.

4. www.collinsdictionary.com › english › the-skinnyTHE SKINNY definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   US informal important information available from an informed source.... Click for English pronunciations, examples sentences, video.

5. worldwidewords.org › qa › qa-ski3Skinny - World Wide Words

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   Aug 23, 2008 · The “straight skinny” isn’t an elongated person, but is the “correct dope,” in marine jargon. The expression cropped up for the first time during the heat of battle on Bougainville. Some unidentified marine (gyrene in “slanguage”) asked a mate in a foxhole, “Is that the straight skinny?” and it sounded so natural that it took on.

6. www.oed.com › dictionary › skinny_adjskinny, adj. & n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford ...

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   There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word skinny, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. How common is the word skinny? About 2 occurrences per million words in modern written English.

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   How many meanings does the word Skinny have?

   • There are 14 meanings listed in OED's entry for the word skinny, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. How common is the word skinny? About 2 occurrences per million words in modern written English How is the word skinny pronounced? Where does the word skinny come from?

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   What does get the skinny mean?

   • Get the skinny is an idiom that has been traced back to just before World War II. We will examine the meaning of the phrase get the skinny, where it came from and some examples of its use in sentences. To get the skinny means to be informed of the real truth or the straight facts, to be told inside information or confidential information.

   Get the skinny Idiom Definition - GRAMMARIST

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   Where does Skinny slang come from?

   • The most plausible suggestion comes from Robert Chapman in his Dictionary of American Slang in 1997: that it includes the normal meaning of skin but implying “the naked truth”. As matters stand, that’s the best explanation we have. Where does Skinny, meaning inside information, come from?

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   Is the skinny a low slang word?

   • Writers and editors must have regarded it either as an unusual word or as low slang, because it doesn’t start to appear much in newspapers and books for another decade and the set phrases what’s the skinny? and here’s the skinny don’t turn up much before the 1980s.

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   Is skinna a slang word?

   • And though it’s quite a stretch, an imaginative wordie might also see flakes of skinna in the 20th-century slang sense of “skin book” as a pornographic work. The word “skinny,” by the way, didn’t refer to a scrawny person or animal when it entered English as an adjective around 1400.

   The Grammarphobia Blog: What’s the skinny?

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   What does skinny mean in Shakespeare's Macbeth?

   • The earliest citations in the OED use “skinny” to mean covered with skin, affecting the skin, looking like skin, and perhaps even having beautiful skin. The colloquial sense of “skinny” as thin or lean didn’t show up until the early 1600s when Shakespeare used it in Macbeth: “Each at once her choppie finger laying Vpon her skinnie Lips.”

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8. grammarist.com › idiom › get-the-skinnyGet the skinny Idiom Definition - GRAMMARIST

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   Get the skinny is an idiom that has been traced back to just before World War II. We will examine the meaning of the phrase get the skinny, where it came from and some examples of its use in sentences. To get the skinny means to be informed of the real truth or the straight facts, to be told inside information or confidential information.