Definitions

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  • adjective obsolete Evasive.

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  • adjective obsolete evasive
  • noun A grape with a loose skin that can easily be slipped off.

Etymologies

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slip +‎ skin

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Examples

  • For example, my six year-old is madly in love with the small blue slipskin grapes on a chainlink fence around an old house in Saratoga.

    Garden Rant 2009

  • The “package” t’Radaik had promised her, the data chip, was waiting for her in a little slipskin envelope on the somewhat-scratched glass table when Arrhae came back from the afternoon session.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • The “package” t’Radaik had promised her, the data chip, was waiting for her in a little slipskin envelope on the somewhat-scratched glass table when Arrhae came back from the afternoon session.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • The “package” t’Radaik had promised her, the data chip, was waiting for her in a little slipskin envelope on the somewhat-scratched glass table when Arrhae came back from the afternoon session.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • The “package” t’Radaik had promised her, the data chip, was waiting for her in a little slipskin envelope on the somewhat-scratched glass table when Arrhae came back from the afternoon session.

    RIHANNSU #3: SWORDHUNT Diane Duane 2000

  • The “package” t’Radaik had promised her, the data chip, was waiting for her in a little slipskin envelope on the somewhat-scratched glass table when Arrhae came back from the afternoon session.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

  • The “package” t’Radaik had promised her, the data chip, was waiting for her in a little slipskin envelope on the somewhat-scratched glass table when Arrhae came back from the afternoon session.

    Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000

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