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Skin-tight   /skɪn-taɪt/   Listen
Skin-tight

adjective
1.
So tight as to cling to the skin.  Synonym: skintight.






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"Skin-tight" Quotes from Famous Books



... harper twanged and the fiddler scraped out the tune of their Lancers. Few really knew what had happened, and the newly-made marquis had to fight his way through women who, in skin-tight dresses, danced with wantoning movements of the hips, and threw themselves into the arms of men, to be, in true kitchen-fashion, whirled round and round ...
— Muslin • George Moore

... first word—but I must describe Yancey. Imagine a short, oily skinned, perpetually perspiring sort of man of forty, with a decollete collar, a double-breasted waistcoat with glass buttons, and skin-tight light trousers held down to a pair of high-heeled boots by leather straps. The space between his waistband and his waistcoat was made good by certain puckerings of his shirt anxious to escape the thralldom of his suspenders. His paunch began and ended so suddenly that he ...
— Colonel Carter of Cartersville • F. Hopkinson Smith



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