(science-fiction,slang) A robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin.
A short haircut such that the skin of the scalp is visible.
1988, Queensryche (lyrics and music), “Operation Mindcrime”:
had a skin job for a hairdo, yeah you looked pretty cool.
2002, William True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II:
Johnny, Dude, Joe and I all got a skin job with a small tuft in front. Johnny looks pretty good with a spit curl in front but I got the feeling I look like 'The Angel.'
2011, Paul Schwertmann, From My Earliest Memory: Peek Into My Past:
Of course, the first one I'm sure most of the servicemen remember, well, for that was our first skin job.
(obsolete) A hastily or shoddily done piece of work.
1895 November 16, The Metal Worker:
It is possible that many men can be trusted to make no mistakes and are above a skin job, but that the plumbing trade has assumed a great breadth in the present day is also true , and it is not well to take the risk of every man being capable of correctly designing all work which he may be called on to execute.
1908 December, Carpentry and Building, volume 30, page 410:
As a matter of course, it would be a skin job, for the architect sold his right of protest by this action.
1912 June 1, J. J. Cosgrove, “Plumbing for Profit”, in Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting:
Unquestionably it was a botch job, and far from being sanitary, and the real plumber had good cause to feel hurt that he should lose both reputation, a friend and profit on such a skin job.
1926 June, “Killing the Golden Goose”, in Building Age and National Builder, volume 48:
The poor sill hasn't even proper dirt support at the corners. Probably as raw a skin job as ever constructed to fool the public.
