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View synonyms for skin game

skin game

noun

  1. a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
  2. any cheating or fraudulent trick.


skin game

noun

  1. slang.
    a swindling trick
“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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Word History and Origins

Origin of skin game1

An Americanism dating back to 1865–70
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Example Sentences

I suppose it's some parental promise she's made, or some skin-game buyer has been through here and threw a wrench in the gears.

And because grafters, shilabers, and skin-game artists follow circuses, the public thinks these are a part of it.

If I ever want to work any skin game I'll go out of the place where all my friends are.

Ye tried to kill a thousand-dollar bird by a skin-game, and I'll have it out of your hide.

"Th' fur trade ain't th' only skin game, young feller," he softly said.

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