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Grafting by skimming profits off the top
Skimming is slang for taking money illegally.Skimming is British slang for illegally taking credit card details by passing the card through a reader.
a shilling (1/-) and earlier, mid-late 1800s a pound or a sovereign. According to Cassells chip meaning a shilling is from horse-racing and betting. Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. The association with a gambling chip is logical. Chip and chipping also have more general associations with money and particularly money-related crime, where the derivations become blurred with other underworld meanings of chip relating to sex and women (perhaps from the French 'chipie' meaning a vivacious woman) and narcotics (in which chip refers to diluting or skimming from a consignment, as in chipping off a small piece - of the drug or the profit). Chipping-in also means to contributing towards or paying towards something, which again relates to the gambling chip use and metaphor, i.e. putting chips into the centre of the table being necessary to continue playing.
Noun. A stone, usually flat, used for skimming on water. [Dialect? Mainly Midlands use]
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v. t.
To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
n.
The act of one who skims.
v. t.
To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
n.
See Skimmington.
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That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum; -- used chiefly in the plural.
adv.
In a skimming manner.
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Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
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Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
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An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.
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Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.
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That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.
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See Skimmington.
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A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
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