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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