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skin job

skin job noun: a robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin.

Noun

skin job (plural skin jobs)

  1. (slang) A robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin.
  2. A short haircut such that the skin of the scalp is visible.
    • had a skin job for a hairdo, yeah you looked pretty cool.1988, Queensryche, “Operation Mindcrime”
    • Johnny, Dude, Joe and I all got a skin job with a small tuft in front. Johnny looks pretty good with a spit curl in front but I got the feeling I look like 'The Angel.'2002, William True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II
  3. (obsolete) A hastily or shoddily done piece of work.
    • It is possible that many men can be trusted to make no mistakes and are above a skin job, but that the plumbing trade has assumed a great breadth in the present day is also true , and it is not well to take the risk of every man being capable of correctly designing all work which he may be called...1895 November 16, The Metal Worker
    • As a matter of course, it would be a skin job, for the architect sold his right of protest by this action.1908 December, Carpentry and Building, volume 30, page 410

Examples of skin job in a sentence

  • Of course, the first one I'm sure most of the servicemen remember, well, for that was our first skin job.2011, Paul Schwertmann, From My Earliest Memory: Peek Into My Past:
  • Unquestionably it was a botch job, and far from being sanitary, and the real plumber had good cause to feel hurt that he should lose both reputation, a friend and profit on such a skin job.1912 June 1, J. J. Cosgrove, “Plumbing for Profit”, in Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting:
  • Probably as raw a skin job as ever constructed to fool the public.1926 June, “Killing the Golden Goose”, in Building Age and National Builder, volume 48:

Forms of skin job

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Questions about skin job

What does skin job mean?
Skin job means a robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin.
How do you use skin job in a sentence?
Of course, the first one I'm sure most of the servicemen remember, well, for that was our first skin job.
What part of speech is skin job?
Skin job is a noun.
What is the plural of skin job?
The plural of skin job is skin jobs.

Words near skin job in the dictionary

  1. skin grafts
  2. skin group
  3. skin groups
  4. skin hunger
  5. skin in the game
  6. skin job
  7. skin jobs
  8. skin mag
  9. skin magazine
  10. skin magazines
  11. skin mags

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