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skin and bone

skin and bone is the alternative form of skin and bones.

Meaning of skin and bones

Noun

skin and bones

  1. (figuratively) A person or an animal that is emaciated or very thin, as from lack of nutrition.
    • Look at that starving dog; he's nothing more than skin and bones.

Questions about skin and bone

What is skin and bone the alternative form of?
Skin and bone is the alternative form of skin and bones.

Words near skin and bone in the dictionary

  1. skims through
  2. skin
  3. skin a flint
  4. skin and blister
  5. skin and blisters
  6. skin and bone
  7. skin and bones
  8. skin and grin
  9. skin art
  10. skin back
  11. skin beetle

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