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SKINFUL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does skinful mean?
• SKINFUL (noun)
The noun SKINFUL has 1 sense:
1. a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk
Familiarity information: SKINFUL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Context example:
someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful
Hypernyms ("skinful" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Domain usage:
argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))
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