skinnie
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[edit]Noun
[edit]skinnie (plural skinnies) (usually in the plural)
- (slang, vulgar, ethnic slur) Someone of Somali descent.
- 2011, Robert F. Baumann, "My Clan Against the World" - Us and Coalition Forces in Somalia 1992-1994:
- It was not long before many UNITAF personnel in Mogadishu and the outlying HRSs began referring to the Somalis as “skinnies,” or using other derogatory terms.