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to skinny-dip

to skinny-dip

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To swim naked for fun, often outdoors
  • verb
  • /ˈskɪni dɪp/
  • NSFW
translation icon : bañarse desnudo
  • No one should skinny-dip alone.
  • go skinny-dipping
  • skinny-dipping in a lake
  • skinny-dipping in a pool

Would you like, would you ever skinny dip in the ocean?

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Examples

  • I really wanted to go skinny-dipping with you.

    Honeymoon (2014)

  • Come skinny-dipping with your wife.

    Fiction book (1996)

  • Would you like, would you ever skinny dip in the ocean?

    The Basement Yard

  • Any have you ever skinny dipped with anyone?

  • I'm sure Tom just went skinny-dipping in the river, - and discovered himself.

    Volunteers (1985)

  • Remember when I was nine years old and I came down and caught you and Norman skinny-dipping?

    On Golden Pond (1981)

  • Yeah, and when that happens I'll go skinny dipping in Green Bay in January.

    Blog text (23)

  • She and Ethel are going skinny-dipping!

    On Golden Pond (1981)

  • Are you going skinny-dipping?

    On Golden Pond (1981)

  • We decided to go skinny-dipping in the moonlit lake for a thrilling adventure.

Surface Forms

skinny-dip infinitive
skinny-dipped past
skinny-dipped past participle
skinny-dipping present participle
skinny-dips third person singular

Morphology

skinny-dip = skinny + dip (semi-transparent) = skinny + dip

The phrase is structurally clear as 'skinny' + 'dip', but the nakedness sense of 'skinny' is colloquial and the expression is somewhat lexicalized.

Etymology

Skinny-dip comes from the words skinny and dip. Skinny means 'without clothes' and dip means 'a short swim', so to skinny-dip is to swim or bathe while naked, usually for fun.