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skin-pop

skin-pop is the alternative form of skinpop.

Meaning of skinpop

Verb

skinpop (third-person singular simple present skinpops, present participle skinpopping, simple past and past participle skinpopped)

  1. (slang) To inject drugs subcutaneously.
    • The patient skinpopped for 1½ years and then started to mainline heroin.1968, Richard Brotman, Alfred M. Freedman, A Community Mental Health Approach to Drug Addiction, page 97
    1. (slang) To do so in a way that creates a depot under the skin.

Forms of skin-pop

third-person singular presentskin-pops
present participleskin-popping
past participleskin-popped
pastskin-popped

Questions about skin-pop

What is skin-pop the alternative form of?
Skin-pop is the alternative form of skinpop.

Words near skin-pop in the dictionary

  1. skin-mags
  2. skin-merchant
  3. skin-merchants
  4. skin-on
  5. skin-picking disorder
  6. skin-pop
  7. skin-popped
  8. skin-popping
  9. skin-pops
  10. skin-tag
  11. skin-tags

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skin-pop (page history and authors); skinpop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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