Meaning

(Australia) An unbranded animal..

Definitions by Sense

1. (Australia) An unbranded animal.
2. A person who does not have any tattoos.
3. Someone with no prior criminal record, a person with no previous convictions; loosely, someone who has not done anything wrong before, an unblemished character.
4. (Australia, New Zealand) An unlabelled bottle of wine.
5. An undercover police officer who has not done a particular task before.
6. (cricket) A cricket bat with no maker's logo

Example Sentences

No one had any clear notion of how many head might be collected, but we counted on something over four hundred--possibly up to five hundred and fifty, including calves and cleanskins.

For here was an unoccupied area where cleanskins had made their home.

I started off lassoing the cleanskins, dragging them up bellowing to the bronco panel where they were quickly leg-roped, thrown and branded.

The bullocks would be in the lead and you'd whip in and let the bullocks go to hell, but hang to your cleanskins as much as you could.

If you're under 18 in Victoria you must now remain a cleanskin. The Government has just passed a bill that minors must not be tattooed with or without their parent's consent.

Both men and women are tattooed, and so important are tattoos for traditional Samoans that it is impossible to serve or be apprenticed to a village leader if you are a cleanskin.

And it had been the witness ID of his tattoos that had sunk him. Now with a forged passport he was going back to the Continent a new man, if not a cleanskin.

Ryan′s natural father was a cleanskin – a police term for a person with no criminal history – who found himself caught up in the world of career criminals when he married into The Clan.

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• cleanskins

Synonyms for clean skin

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