Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shirts and skins

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.65 in modern English

Syllables: shirt-s and skins
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A method of indicating team membership, typically when played by boys or men in informal sporting contests, in which the members of one team (the "skins") remove their shirts and play shirtless, while the others (the "shirts") leave their shirts on.

noun

Any game (especially basketball) played using the above method.

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Sports.

Questions

What does shirts and skins mean?: A method of indicating team membership, typically when played by boys or men in informal sporting contests, in which the members of one team (the "skins") remove their shirts and play shirtless, while the others (the "shirts") leave their shirts on.

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