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skinnied up

skinnied up is the simple past and past participle of skinny up.

Meaning of skinny up

Verb

skinny up (third-person singular simple present skinnies up, present participle skinnying up, simple past and past participle skinnied up)

  1. (informal, intransitive, transitive) To become or make (something) skinny.
    • He's been skinnying up this year.
  2. (informal, transitive) To make (something) skimpy or restricted.
    • The insurance company is skinnying up the benefits.

Questions about skinnied up

What is skinnied up the simple past and past participle of?
Skinnied up is the simple past and past participle of skinny up.

Words near skinnied up in the dictionary

  1. skinneth
  2. skinnie
  3. skinnied
  4. skinnied down
  5. skinnied out
  6. skinnied up
  7. skinnier
  8. skinnies
  9. skinnies down
  10. skinnies out
  11. skinnies up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skinnied up (page history and authors); skinny up (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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