noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The skin of a frog, or leather made from it. countable, uncountable

   "She pulled a frogskin wallet out of her purse."

2. 2
   A greenback, a United States dollar. US, countable, slang, uncountable

   "You can buy the individual parts for a few frogskins, or the whole setup for fifty."

Synonyms

All synonyms

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Example

More examples

"Then the frog threw off her frogskin and turned into a beautiful, sweet girl, named Vasilissa."

Etymology

From frog + skin.

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