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collect skin

collect skin verb: to shut up.

Verb

collect skin (third-person singular simple present collects skin, present participle collecting skin, simple past and past participle collected skin)

  1. (Hong-Kong, colloquial, vulgar) to shut up
  2. (Hong-Kong, colloquial, vulgar) to be done for
  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see collect, skin.

Forms of collect skin

third-person singular presentcollects skin
present participlecollecting skin
past participlecollected skin
pastcollected skin

Origin of collect skin

Calque of Cantonese 收皮 (sau¹ pei⁴).

Questions about collect skin

What does collect skin mean?
Collect skin means to shut up.
What part of speech is collect skin?
Collect skin is a verb.
What is the past tense of collect skin?
The past tense of collect skin is collected skin.

Words near collect skin in the dictionary

  1. collect like infinity stones
  2. collect on delivery
  3. collect one's thoughts
  4. collect one's wits
  5. collect oneself
  6. collect skin
  7. collect up
  8. collect-'em-up
  9. collect-'em-ups
  10. collectability
  11. collectable

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