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skinpopping

skinpopping is the present participle and gerund of skinpop.

Meaning of skinpop

Verb

skinpop (third-person singular simple present skinpops, present participle skinpopping, simple past and past participle skinpopped)

  1. (slang) To inject drugs subcutaneously.
    • The patient skinpopped for 1½ years and then started to mainline heroin.1968, Richard Brotman, Alfred M. Freedman, A Community Mental Health Approach to Drug Addiction, page 97
    1. (slang) To do so in a way that creates a depot under the skin.

Questions about skinpopping

What is skinpopping the present participle and gerund of?
Skinpopping is the present participle and gerund of skinpop.

Words near skinpopping in the dictionary

  1. skinnyscrapers
  2. skinoe
  3. skinoes
  4. skinpop
  5. skinpopped
  6. skinpopping
  7. skinpops
  8. skins
  9. skins a flint
  10. skins and grins
  11. skins back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skinpopping (page history and authors); skinpop (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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