cleanskin

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An unbranded animal. Australia
    — No one had any clear notion of how many head might be collected, but we counted on something over four hundred--possibly up to five hundred and fifty, including calves and cleanskins.
  2. A person who does not have any tattoos.
    — If you're under 18 in Victoria you must now remain a cleanskin. The Government has just passed a bill that minors must not be tattooed with or without their parent's consent.
  3. Someone with no prior criminal record, a person with no previous convictions; loosely, someone who has not done anything wrong before, an unblemished character.
    — Ryan′s natural father was a cleanskin – a police term for a person with no criminal history – who found himself caught up in the world of career criminals when he married into The Clan.
  4. An unlabelled bottle of wine. Australia,New-Zealand
    — Mr McKenzie said that two years ago a decent bottle of sauvignon blanc sold for $15 to $20, but today prices were down to $10 a bottle. "More cleanskins entering the market is the first indication there is too much SB out there," he said.
  5. An undercover police officer who has not done a particular task before.
  6. A cricket bat with no maker's logo

词形变化

cleanskins plural

词源

From clean + skin.
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