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fish-skins

fish-skins is the plural of fish-skin.

Meaning of fish-skin

Noun

fish-skin (countable and uncountable, plural fish-skins)

  1. (US, countable, dated, slang, uncommon) A dollar bill.
    • I learned quickly that a dollar bill was a fish-skin.1936, Lee Duncan, Over The Wall, page 21

Questions about fish-skins

What is fish-skins the plural of?
Fish-skins is the plural of fish-skin.

Words near fish-skins in the dictionary

  1. fish-scale
  2. fish-scales
  3. fish-skin
  4. fish-skin disease
  5. Fish-skin Tartar
  6. fish-skins
  7. fish-tail
  8. fish-tails
  9. fish-trap
  10. fish-traps
  11. fish-wrap

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