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Fine Dictionary

skin-tight

WordNet
  1. (adj) skin-tight
    so tight as to cling to the skin "skintight jeans"
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Skin-tight
    fitting close to the skin
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. scinn; Ice. skinn, skin, Ger. schinden, to flay.

Usage in the news

The 43-year-old hottie is playing a prostitute in her latest movie and RadarOnline.com has the photos of her racy look – Daisy Dukes short shorts and a skin tight white tank top sans bra. radaronline.com

"Skin Tight" by Cor Theatre at A Red Orchid. chicagotribune.com

When put on right after washing they would fit pretty skin tight. forestlaketimes.com

While we can't shrink our pores with any permanency, the right skin-care products and treatments can help keep the skin clear and tight, making pores less noticeable. skininc.com

Do skin-tight jerseys help performance. thestar.com

Christina Aguilera's Skin Tight Dress. pst.com

Kim Kardashian Struggles To Contain Her Assets In A Skin-Tight Dress. radaronline.com

Eva on 'The View': Skin-tight dress. blog.mysanantonio.com

Olivia Wilde Felt 'Challenged' to Fit Into Skin-Tight 'Tron' Suit. foxnews.com

Minnetonka High School's principal says skin-tight spandex leggings worn by female students are becoming a distraction. crookstontimes.com

This time, we get so see her crawling through a heating duct in a skin tight catsuit. 1063thebuzz.com

She regularly shows off her curves in skin-tight, cleavage-baring dresses, but Jennifer Love Hewitt relies on something less obvious to help her land a man. usmagazine.com

This mild, sweet-smelling solid feels like silk and leaves skin feeling supple and hydrated, not tight and dry like soaps tend to. fitnessmagazine.com

A lot of skin, tight outfits, and plenty of cleavage . todaystmj4.com

Skins tight-fitting compression clothing were developed in Australia. oregonlive.com

Usage in literature

Look, Tom, at their braided coats, they fit as tight as their skins. "The Three Admirals" by W.H.G. Kingston

In any case it must lie tightly on the skin. "Papers on Health" by John Kirk

The skin of my face no longer seemed tightly stretched. "We Three" by Gouverneur Morris

The children could see plainly the film of tight skin. "Little Busybodies" by Jeanette Augustus Marks and Julia Moody

It was an almost spherical tumour, some three inches in diameter, with skin drawn tight and shining over its surface. "Across Coveted Lands" by Arnold Henry Savage Landor

The skin was drawn tightly over their faces and, as it were, away from their eyes. "A Poor Man's House" by Stephen Sydney Reynolds

The men wore pants which seemed to cling to the skin, they were so tight. "A Soldier in the Philippines" by Needom N. Freeman

The covering skins were sewed together with rawhide strings as tight and secure as the work of any sailor. "The Great Sioux Trail" by Joseph Altsheler

The skin seemed tightly drawn about his cheeks, and he was very white. "The Master Mummer" by E. Phillips Oppenheim

The drum of the ear is a very delicate, tightly stretched skin which is easily damaged. "How Girls Can Help Their Country" by Juliette Low

Usage in poetry
"And shall I get so plump and fresh,
And look no longer seedily?
My skin will henceforth fit my flesh
So tightly and so TWEEDIE-ly?"
The tightness of a hempen rope
Their bodies got; but laundry soap
Not handsomer can rub the skin
For token of the washed within.
Occasionally coughers cast
A leg aloft and coughed their last.
A dying firelight slides along the quirt
Of the cast iron cowboy where he leans
Against my father's books. The lariat
Whirls into darkness. My girl in skin tight jeans
Fingers a page of Captain Marriat
Inviting insolent shadows to her shirt.