SKINFUL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skinful mean? 

• SKINFUL (noun)
  The noun SKINFUL has 1 sense:

1. a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk

  Familiarity information: SKINFUL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKINFUL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Context example:

someone had to drive me home last night because I had a skinful

Hypernyms ("skinful" is a kind of...):

indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)

Domain usage:

argot; cant; jargon; lingo; patois; slang; vernacular (a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves))