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skins

/skɪnz/

skins noun: the drums. Also the plural of skin.

Noun

skins

  1. (plural, plural-only, slang) The drums.
    • If I had my rathers I'd make up my own band. Art Blakey on the skins, Charlie Mingus on the bass, John Coltrane on the sax, Harry Edison on the horn-1973, Chester B. Himes, Black on Black, Baby Sister and Selected Writings, page 46
    • Two women sat whacking the skins with long whippy sticks, whining a song2005, Jonathan Falla, Poor Mercy: A Novel, Birlinn, page 195

Also used as

skins is also the plural of skin.

skins is also the third-person singular simple present indicative of skin.

skins meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

skins in Hindi

त्वचाएँ

skins in Tamil

தோல்கள்

skins in Urdu

کھالیں, کھالوں

skins in Telugu

చర్మాలు, తొక్కలు
More languagesFewer languages
skins in Kannada
ಚರ್ಮಗಳು
skins in Gujarati
ત્વચાઓ

Phrases with skins

11 more phrasesFewer phrases

Words that rhyme with skins

2 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about skins

What does skins mean?
Skins means the drums.
What is skins in Hindi?
Skins in Hindi is त्वचाएँ. See Skins meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is skins?
Skins is a noun.
How do you pronounce skins?
Skins is pronounced /skɪnz/.

Words near skins in the dictionary

  1. skinoes
  2. skinpop
  3. skinpopped
  4. skinpopping
  5. skinpops
  6. skins
  7. skins a flint
  8. skins and grins
  9. skins back
  10. skins someone alive
  11. skins the cat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skins (page history and authors); skins (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skins (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skins (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skins (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skins (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); skins (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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