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Skinny (adjective)
thin, generally in a negative sense (as opposed to slim, which is thin in a positive sense).
“Her recent weight loss has made her look rather skinny than slender”
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Skinny (adjective)
Low-fat.
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Skinny (adjective)
Naked; nude (chiefly used in the phrase skinny dipping).
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Skinny (adjective)
tight-fitting
“skinny jeans”
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Skinny (noun)
The details or facts; especially, those obtained by gossip or rumor.
“She called to get the skinny on the latest goings-on in the club.”
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Skinny (noun)
A state of nakedness; nudity.
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Skinny (noun)
A low-fat serving of coffee.
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Skinny (noun)
A skinny being.
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Skinny (verb)
To reduce or cut down.
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Lean (verb)
To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating.
“a leaning column”
“She leaned out of the window.”
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Lean (verb)
To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; with to, toward, etc.
“I’m leaning towards voting Conservative in the next election.”
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Lean (verb)
To rest or rely, for support, comfort, etc.; with on, upon, or against.
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Lean (verb)
To hang outwards.
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Lean (verb)
To press against.
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Lean (verb)
To thin out (a fuel-air mixture): to reduce the fuel flow into the mixture so that there is more air or oxygen.
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Lean (verb)
To conceal.
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Lean (noun)
An inclination away from the vertical.
“The trees had various leans toward gaps in the canopy.”
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Lean (noun)
Meat with no fat on it.
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Lean (noun)
A recreational drug based on codeine-laced promethazine cough syrup, popular in the hip hop community in the southeastern United States.
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Lean (adjective)
Slim; not fleshy.
“lithe|svelte|willowy|Thesaurus:slender”
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Lean (adjective)
Having little fat.
“lean steak cuts”
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Lean (adjective)
Having little extra or little to spare; scanty; meagre.
“insufficient|scarce|sparse|Thesaurus:inadequate”
“a lean budget”
“a lean harvest”
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Lean (adjective)
Having a low proportion or concentration of a desired substance or ingredient.
“deficient|dilute|poor”
“rich”
“A lean ore hardly worth mining.”
“Running on too lean a fuel-air mixture will cause, among other problems, your internal combustion engine to heat up too much.”
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Lean (adjective)
Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; opposed to fat.
“lean copy, matter, or type”
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Lean (adjective)
Efficient, economic, frugal, agile, slimmed-down; pertaining to the modern industrial principles of “lean manufacturing”
“lean management”
“lean manufacturing”
“Alcoa is now a lean and agile enterprise, after having split last year into two entities.”
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Lean (verb)
be in or move into a sloping position
“he leaned back in his chair”
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Lean (verb)
incline from the perpendicular and rest for support against (something)
“a man was leaning against the wall”
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Lean (verb)
cause something to rest against
“he leaned his elbows on the table”
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Lean (noun)
a deviation from the perpendicular; an inclination
“the vehicle has a definite lean to the left”
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Lean (noun)
the lean part of meat
“the man who eats no fat and the wife who eats no lean”
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Lean (adjective)
(of a person or animal) thin, especially healthily so; having no superfluous fat
“his lean, muscular body”
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Lean (adjective)
(of meat) containing little fat
“lean bacon”
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Lean (adjective)
(of an industry or company) efficient and with no wastage
“staff were pruned, ostensibly to produce a leaner and fitter organization”
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Lean (adjective)
offering little reward, substance, or nourishment; meagre
“the lean winter months”
“keep a small reserve to tide you over the lean years”
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Lean (adjective)
(of a vaporized fuel mixture) having a high proportion of air
“lean air-to-fuel ratios”