Usually means: Secret shame or hidden guilt.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeleton in the closet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. skeleton in the closet: Collins English Dictionary
  3. skeleton in the closet: Vocabulary.com
  4. skeleton in the closet: Wiktionary
  5. skeleton in the closet: Dictionary.com
  6. Skeleton in the closet (idiom), Skeleton in the closet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. skeleton in the closet: Rhymezone
  8. skeleton in the closet: FreeDictionary.org
  9. skeleton in the closet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. skeleton in the closet: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skeleton in the closet: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skeleton in the closet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skeleton in the closet: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skeleton in the closet: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skeleton in the closet: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (US, idiomatic) A shameful secret.

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