Topic: FOOD
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skin2 past tense and past participle skinned, present participle skinning [transitive]
1DF to remove the skin from an animal, fruit, or vegetable [↪ peel]: 
Add the tomatoes, skinned and sliced.
Add the tomatoes, skinned and sliced.2 to hurt yourself by rubbing off some skin [= graze]: She fell and skinned her knee.
She fell and skinned her knee.3 to punish someone very severely - used humorously : Dad will skin you alive when he sees this place!
skin somebody alive
Dad will skin you alive when he sees this place!4 informal to completely defeat someone [= hammer]: The football team really skinned Watertown last year.
The football team really skinned Watertown last year.skin up
phrasal verbMDD to make a cigarette with marijuana in it
