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"skin-the-lamb" Definition

  1. a game at cards, a very expressive corruption of the term “lansquenet,” also a racing term. When a non-favourite wins a race, bookmakers are said to SKIN THE LAMB, under the supposition that they win all their bets, no person having backed the winner. This has been corrupted into SKINNER.

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Position in the dictionary: 3178 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: skinflint, skinner, skipper, skipper-birds, skipper-it, skit, skittles, skow-banker, skrouge, skull-thatcher
Previous words in the dictionary: skin, skimmery, skilly, skilligolee, skied., skied, skid, skedaddle, sizings., sizers

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