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Etymology edit

skin +‎ pop

Verb edit

skinpop (third-person singular simple present skinpops, present participle skinpopping, simple past and past participle skinpopped)

  1. (slang) To inject drugs subcutaneously.
    • 1968, Richard Brotman, Alfred M. Freedman, A Community Mental Health Approach to Drug Addiction, page 97:
      The patient skinpopped for 1½ years and then started to mainline heroin.
    • 2015, Charles McLeod, Settlers of Unassigned Lands, page 22:
      [] the ones who come over past midnight and skinpop, the best high for fucking []

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