A Pewter medal is awarded in the Senior Class, for the most remarkable example of skinned Composition.—Burlesque Catalogue, Yale Coll., 1852-53, p. 29.
Classical men were continually tempted to "skin" (copy) the solutions of these examples.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 381.
To skin ahead; at Hamilton College, to read a lesson over in the class immediately before reciting.
SKIN. A lesson learned by hearing it read by another; borrowed ideas; anything plagiarized.
'T was plenty of skin with a good deal of Bohn.[65]
Songs, Biennial Jubilee, Yale Coll., 1855.
SKINNING. Learning, or the act of learning, a lesson by hearing it read by another; plagiarizing.
Alas for our beloved orations! acquired by skinning, looking on, and ponies.—Yale Banger, Oct. 1848.
Barefaced copying from books and reviews in their compositions is familiar to our students, as much so as "skinning" their mathematical examples.—Bristed's Five Years in an Eng. Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 394.
SKUNK. At Princeton College, to fail to pay a debt; used actively; e.g. to skunk a tailor, i.e. not to pay him.
SLANG. To scold, chide, rebuke. The use of this word as a verb is in a measure peculiar to students.