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fish-skin en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of fish skin.
    alt of fish skin
  2. (US, countable, dated, slang, uncommon) A dollar bill.
    • I learned quickly that a dollar bill was a fish-skin. 1936, Lee Duncan, Over The Wall, page 21:

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fish-skins Number=Plur lexicographic