Meaning of skin job | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin.
   slang
2. A short haircut such that the skin of the scalp is visible.
3. A hastily or shoddily done piece of work.
   obsolete

Examples

“had a skin job for a hairdo, yeah you looked pretty cool.”

“Johnny, Dude, Joe and I all got a skin job with a small tuft in front. Johnny looks pretty good with a spit⟳ curl in front but I got the feeling I look⟳ like⟳ 'The Angel.'”

“Of course, the first one I'm sure most of the servicemen remember⟳, well, for that was our first skin job.”

“It is possible that many men can be trusted to make⟳ no mistakes and are above a skin job, but that the plumbing trade⟳ has assumed a great breadth in the present⟳ day is also true , and it is not well to take⟳ the risk⟳ of every man being capable of correctly designing all work⟳ which he may be called on to execute.”

“As a matter⟳ of course, it would be a skin job, for the architect sold his right of protest⟳ by this action.”

“Unquestionably it was a botch job, and far from being sanitary, and the real plumber had good cause to feel⟳ hurt⟳ that he should lose⟳ both reputation, a friend and profit on such a skin job.”

“The poor sill hasn't even proper dirt support⟳ at the corners. Probably as raw a skin job as ever constructed to fool the public.”

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