the skinny

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   slang terms for inside information

   “is that the straight dope?”

   Synonymsdopepooplow-down

   Broaderdetails

Questions about the skinny

What does the skinny mean?

the skinny means "slang terms for inside information".

What is another word for the skinny?

Close synonyms include dope, poop, low-down. 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 the skinny a common word?

the skinny 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.