Usually means: Extremely thin, malnourished physical state.
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  1. skin and bones: Merriam-Webster
  2. skin and bones: Vocabulary.com
  3. skin and bones: Wiktionary
  4. skin and bones: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. skin and bones: Dictionary.com
  6. Skin And Bones, Skin and Bones (Foo Fighters album), Skin and Bones (Lyriel album), Skin and Bones (disambiguation), Skin and Bones (song), Skin and Bones: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. skin and bones: Rhymezone
  8. skin and bones: FreeDictionary.org
  9. skin and bones: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. skin and bones: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. skin and bones: Encyclopedia

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  1. Skin and bones: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (skin and bones)

noun:  A person or an animal that is emaciated or very thin, as from lack of nutrition.

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