Definitions
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- noun Australia An unbranded animal.
- noun Someone with no prior
criminal record , a person with no previousconvictions ; loosely, someone who has not done anything wrong before, an unblemished character. - noun Australia, New Zealand An unlabelled bottle of
wine . - noun An
undercover police officer who has not done a particular task before. - noun cricket A
cricket bat with nomaker 'slogo
Etymologies
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Examples
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He said consumers were also confused by the fact they could buy "cleanskin" wines carrying generic labels and bottles of wine for $10 which they were told were worth $20 to $30.
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In the end I stayed a cleanskin but not for lack of trying.
Archive 2008-06-01 Another Outspoken Female 2008
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My findings bring up a number of serious concerns about any organisation that seeks out funds from the public pocket – especially one that claims to be an ideological cleanskin. '
Polaris Project: Combating Human Trafficking or The Helping Hand of Hypocrisy? 2009
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A Dan Murphy cleanskin is ideal and will be good enough to drink the rest with the meal.
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A glass of chardonnay, one of the Dan Murphy cleanskin specials.
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This is not your cleanskin type of wine retailer, they have far more interesting wines, starting from about the $20 level.
Archive 2006-09-01 2006
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A glass of chardonnay, one of the Dan Murphy cleanskin specials.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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A Dan Murphy cleanskin is ideal and will be good enough to drink the rest with the meal.
Archive 2006-11-01 2006
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This is not your cleanskin type of wine retailer, they have far more interesting wines, starting from about the $20 level.
At My Table 2006
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I'm quite pleased I hid it in the cupboard when somebody turned up, and opened up a cleanskin instead...no way I was sharing that one.
Archive 2005-09-01 Niki 2005
bilby commented on the word cleanskin
Surprised that this word is only in Wiktionary and not the more conventional dictionaries, if not those with mildew in their smoking jackets.
I was at a meeting last night and a serving police officer used it in sense 2 above.
"We had an excellent handprint from the car thief but he was a cleanskin."
June 24, 2014