Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

skin-flick

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables: skin-flick
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or pertaining to pornographic motion pictures.

Example Sentences

"The defendant was Mature Enterprises Inc., operator of the World, a Manhattan skin-flick theater charged with promoting obscenity by showing the highly publicized "Deep Throat.""

Etymology

From the noun skin flick.

Questions

What does skin-flick mean?: Of or pertaining to pornographic motion pictures.
Where does skin-flick come from?: From the noun skin flick.

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