SKIN AND BONES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skin and bones mean? 

• SKIN AND BONES (noun)
  The noun SKIN AND BONES has 1 sense:

1. a person who is unusually thin and scrawny

  Familiarity information: SKIN AND BONES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKIN AND BONES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is unusually thin and scrawny

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

scrag; skin and bones; thin person

Hypernyms ("skin and bones" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skin and bones"):

spindlelegs; spindleshanks (a thin person with long thin legs)

 Context examples 

His face is skin and bones and frozen black. It is a hungry face. The eyes are deep-sunk in his head, and the lips are snarling.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)