skin flick

n. Slang

A pornographic film.

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skin flick

skinflick

(Film) slang a film containing much nudity and explicit sex for sensational purposes

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Noun

skin flick - a pornographic movie

motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, pic, film, picture show, flick, picture - a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location"

jargon, lingo, patois, argot, vernacular, slang, cant - a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo"

Translations

فلم إباحي

pornografický film

Porno

pornófilm

pornofilm

erotický/pornografický film

açık-saçık film

裸体色情影片

skin

(skin) noun

1. the natural outer covering of an animal or person. She couldn't stand the feel of wool against her skin; A snake can shed its skin.

2. a thin outer layer, as on a fruit. a banana-skin; onion-skins.

3. a (thin) film or layer that forms on a liquid. Boiled milk often has a skin on it.

verb – past tense, past participle skinned –

to remove the skin from. He skinned and cooked the rabbit.

ˈskin-diving noun

diving and swimming under water with simple equipment (a mask, flippers etc).

ˈskin flick noun

a pornographic film.

ˈskin-ˈtight adjective

fitting as tightly as one's skin. skin-tight jeans; Her new sweater is skin-tight.

by the skin of one's teeth

very narrowly; only just. We escaped by the skin of our teeth.

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A source told the New York Daily News that the 'Anger Management' star and skin flick starlet have been keeping time at his pad and not letting their prior allegations of choking, drug-fueled death threats, extortion and wristwatch robbery ruin the fun.

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Such questions, which venture the most crude psychologism, are surely irrelevant, but they are ones you know Patty Chang herself entertained while making her latest video, the forty-two-minute intellectual skin flick The Product Love, 2009, which recently had its NewYork premiere at Mary Boone Gallery.

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After assaulting us with Red Army Faction sex terrorism in The Raspberry Reich (2004) and queer neo-Nazi skinheads in Skin Flick (1999), LaBruee outdoes himself in Otto, gnawing at our entrails with the affecting story of a young zombie looking not for flesh but soul in our postmodern culture.

He sees dead people: Director Bruce LaBruce on his new gay zombie film, the corporate takeover of culture, and--of course--sex

With their electricity and plumbing turned off they hit upon the idea of making a homegrown "skin flick" to get some quick cash.

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Skin flick: Raquel's furry bikini; BC does it: Camilla shows how she made best-dressed stars list; Desert stormer: Camilla runs for her life with tribesmen during the epic filmed partly in Africa; Dire Straits: Steven gets up close and personal with a prehistoric sabre tooth tiger in 10,000 BC; Catwalk belle: Camilla with fellow stars Rachel Weisz and Lucy Liu at Paris Fashion Week

It was so cold that I'd have loved a fur bikini like Raquel's; EXCLUSIVE STUNNING STAR REVEALS FREEZING ORDEAL ON SET OF CAVEMAN EPIC