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cleanskin

/ ˈkliːnˌskɪn /

noun

  1. an unbranded animal
  2. slang.
    a person without a criminal record
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Heather Morris: He wanted somebody who had no family connection to the Holocaust; I was like a cleanskin.

Since then she has been seen in the 2009 Doctor Who episode Planet of the Dead and the Sean Bean film Cleanskin.

From BBC

That's why Gallagher, campaigning as an independent and presenting himself as a kind of Irish Herman Cain, a cleanskin free from the taint of party politics and honed for high office by years as an entrepreneur, has been faring so well in opinion polls.

From Time

Each of them singled out a cleanskin, and almost at the same time two lassoes whirled through the air.

The cleanskin was lassoed and pulled to the rails, the leg ropes were fixed and hitched, and then the front rope was handed to Sax and the back one to Vaughan.

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