skinny-dipn.
/ˈskɪnɪdɪp/, U.S. /ˈskɪniˌdɪp/ colloquial (originally North American).
An instance of skinny-dipping; a naked swim.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > swimming > [noun] > specific type
breaststroke1890
medley1913
surf1917
skinny-dip1947
skinny-dipping1947
shark-baiting1951
swim-in1960
synchro-swim1976
1947 Marion (Ohio) Star 2 July 6/7 Things city boys and girls never will have, such as skinny dips in creeks instead of swimming pools.
1970 J. Howard Please Touch 14 Except for a couple of furtive midnight skinny-dips I had never taken off my clothes in public.
1987 J. Hersey Fling in Fling (1990) 36 We'd driven down after a party for a skinny-dip.
2001 Heat 17 Nov. 101/2 (caption) The skinny dip went horribly wrong when some joker nicked all their clothes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
skinny-dipv.
/ˈskɪnɪdɪp/, U.S. /ˈskɪniˌdɪp/ colloquial (originally North American).
intransitive. To go swimming naked.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > skin-diving > skin-dive [verb (intransitive)]
skin-dive1936
skinny-dip1964
1964 R. Carse Seafarers iv. 43 There are no accounts of tithing men being drowned by enraged groups of boys skinny-dipping in a forest brook.
1971 Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 17 July 1/7 Two young men decided to skinny-dip near Rexburg, Idaho and left their clothes in their sail boat, but the boat sailed out of reach.
1980 L. Birnbach et al. Official Preppy Handbk. 190/1 Once every summer, teenagers are caught skinny-dipping after dark.
2002 Times Educ. Suppl. 27 Sept. 6/1 Ah, now exactly where did we pack those swimming costumes? No matter, will skinny-dip.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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