thick skin

1. 1.

   skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros)

   Broaderskin

   Part ofpachyderm

Questions about thick skin

What does thick skin mean?

thick skin means "skin that is very thick (as an elephant or rhinoceros)".

Is thick skin a common word?

thick 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.