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skinnying up

skinnying up is the present participle and gerund 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 skinnying up

What is skinnying up the present participle and gerund of?
Skinnying up is the present participle and gerund of skinny up.

Words near skinnying up in the dictionary

  1. skinnydipping
  2. skinnydips
  3. skinnying
  4. skinnying down
  5. skinnying out
  6. skinnying up
  7. skinnyish
  8. skinnymalink
  9. skinnymalinks
  10. skinnymalinkses
  11. skinnyscraper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skinnying 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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