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skin the cat

skin the cat verb: to perform a certain turning exercise while hanging from a bar or rings.

Verb

skin the cat (third-person singular simple present skins the cat, present participle skinning the cat, simple past and past participle skinned the cat)

  1. To perform a certain turning exercise while hanging from a bar or rings.

Forms of skin the cat

third-person singular presentskins the cat
present participleskinning the cat
past participleskinned the cat
pastskinned the cat

Questions about skin the cat

What does skin the cat mean?
Skin the cat means to perform a certain turning exercise while hanging from a bar or rings.
What part of speech is skin the cat?
Skin the cat is a verb.
What is the past tense of skin the cat?
The past tense of skin the cat is skinned the cat.

Words near skin the cat in the dictionary

  1. skin orgasms
  2. skin signs
  3. skin someone alive
  4. skin tag
  5. skin tags
  6. skin the cat
  7. skin the lamb
  8. skin tone
  9. skin tones
  10. skin trade
  11. skin up

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