banana skin

1. 1.

   the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)

   “he slipped on a banana skin and almost fell”

   Synonymsbanana peel

   Broaderpeel

Questions about banana skin

What does banana skin mean?

banana skin means "the skin of a banana (especially when it is stripped off and discarded)".

What is another word for banana skin?

Close synonyms include banana peel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is banana skin a common word?

banana skin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.