skin flick
- noun
- /skɪn flɪk/
- Offensive
- Skin flicks.
Examples
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The director announced that they were starting production on a new skin flick this summer.
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- Skin flicks, ma'am.
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No, it's not just a skin flick.
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"A Kanye West skin flick?
Blog text (29) -
Those creeps watch skin flicks every Saturday in the courthouse.
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Any skin flicks?
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They shot a skin flick on my campus, a couple guys and some townies, and they acted in it.
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We're back with the star of the scintillating skin flick, Deep Throat, Linda Lovelace and the film director, Jerry Damiano.
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Because he'd been buzzed, because he'd been homier than a goat after seeing all those skin flicks, and Cheryl had a drop-dead body.
Fiction book (1995) -
He watched a famous skin flick from the 1970s that changed the adult film industry.
Synonyms
A photo, film or magazine showing a naked person
A film for adults that shows sexual scenes or explicit content
An adult film with soft sex scenes that plays late on cable TV like Cinemax
Antonyms
How Explicit
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is partially compositional: 'skin' evokes nudity and 'flick' is an informal word for a film, so a learner who knows both words can plausibly infer a movie featuring nudity. However, the term is slang and culturally specific (meaning explicitly pornographic), so the exact pragmatic/pejorative sense may not be fully predictable without exposure.
Etymology
Skin flick may come from joining skin, meaning naked bodies, with flick, a casual word for 'movie'. The image of a film full of 'skin' is why it came to mean a 'pornographic movie'.