skin the lamb

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

skin the lamb (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete, card games) The game of lansquenet.

Verb[edit]

skin the lamb (third-person singular simple present skins the lamb, present participle skinning the lamb, simple past and past participle skinned the lamb)

  1. (slang, archaic, gambling) Of a bookmaker: to win all of his bets, in the case where nobody backed the winner.

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References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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