Usually means: Lizards with smooth, shiny scales.
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  2. skinks: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. skinks: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (skink)

noun:  (Scotland, Northern England) A shin of beef.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) A soup or pottage made from a boiled shin of beef.
noun:  (chiefly Scotland, by extension) Usually preceded by a descriptive word: a soup or pottage made using other ingredients.
noun:  A lizard of the family Scincidae, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed; a sandfish.
verb:  (ambitransitive, Scotland) To serve (a drink).
verb:  (transitive, Scotland, Northern England, obsolete) To give (something) as a present.
noun:  (obsolete) A drink.
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