Definitions
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- noun an underwater swimmer equipped with a face mask and foot fins and either a snorkel or an air cylinder
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Examples
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January 18, 2008 at 4:57 pm a orca in a red skin-diver soot?
Nom Nom Nom Nom - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The beetle crawled downward through it, like a skin-diver who has already passed the safety-knot on his line, but is too drugged by the ecstasy of the depths to care.
Cities In Flight Blish, James 1957
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My dad had this Sea Hunt TV series in the 60s where he developed such a strong persona that people actually thought he was a skin-diver.
Culture | guardian.co.uk Xan Brooks 2010
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"And he knows Customs is still all over me like a wetsuit on a skin-diver, because you know it, and you sent him some kind of coded message on the truck's radio.
The Drawing of the Three King, Stephen, 1947- 1987
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