Skin v.

To copy, to plagiarize. (Yale.)

1837.  “To skin—to pilfer, to filch, etc. A student is said to skin a problem, when he places the most implicit faith in the correctness of his neighbor’s solution of it, or at least sufficient to warrant bestowing upon it the rites of adoption.”—Coll. Lexicon, Vol. vi.—Yale Lit. Mag., ii. 138 n. (Feb.).

1846.  He has passively admitted that he has skinned from other grammarians.—Yale Banger, Nov. (Hall, ‘College Words,’ p. 431 [1856].)

1849.  The youth who so barefacedly skinned the song referred to.—Yale Tomahawk, Nov. (The same.)

1850.  That remarkable prophecy which Horace so boldly skinned and called his own.—‘Burial of Euclid.’ (The same.)

1855.