SKIN AND BONES

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who is unusually thin and scrawny

Synonyms:

scrag; skin and bones; thin person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("skin and bones" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "skin and bones"):

spindlelegs; spindleshanks (a thin person with long thin legs)

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