skins
noun/skɪnz/
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plural of skin
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music Slang The drums.
- If I had my rathers I'd make up my own band. Art Blakey on the skins, Charlie Mingus on the bass, John Coltrane on the sax, Harry Edison on the horn-1973, Chester B. Himes, Black on Black, Baby Sister and Selected Writings, page 46:
- Two women sat whacking the skins with long whippy sticks, whining a song2005, Jonathan Falla, Poor Mercy: A Novel, Birlinn, page 195:
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