skin the lamb

English

Noun

skin the lamb (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, card games) The game of lansquenet.

Verb

skin the lamb (third-person singular simple present skins the lamb, present participle skinning the lamb, simple past and past participle skinned the lamb)

1. (slang, archaic, gambling) Of a bookmaker: to win all of his bets, in the case where nobody backed the winner.

Related terms

• skinner

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary