skinny jeans

noun

A style of form-fitting jeans with very narrow, straight legs, which often taper inward at the ankles.

“She ordered a pair of plus-size skinny jeans online.”

Meanings

nounskinny jeans pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlybusinessA style of form-fitting jeans with very narrow, straight legs, which often taper inward at the ankles.

    She ordered a pair of plus-size skinny jeans online.

    1 more example

    Got your tongue pierced anyway / You in your high-tops any day / You in your skinny jeans anyway

    2012, “Sex”, performed by The 1975

    Synonyms: skinnies, drainpipes, drainpipe jeans, drainpipe trousers, stovepipes, stovepipe trousers

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA style of form-fitting jeans with very narrow, straight legs, which often taper inward at the ankles.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 小腳褲 /小脚裤
  • 小腳褲 /小脚裤 (xiǎojiǎo kù)form-fitting jeans
Finnish pillifarkut, pillihousut
  • pillifarkutform-fitting jeans
  • pillihousutform-fitting jeans
German Röhrenhose, Röhrenjeans
  • Röhrenhoseform-fitting jeans
  • Röhrenjeansform-fitting jeans
Hebrew סקיני ג׳ינס
  • סקיני ג׳ינסform-fitting jeans
Hungarian csőnadrág
  • csőnadrágform-fitting jeans
Japanese スキニージーンズ
  • スキニージーンズ (sukinī jīnzu)form-fitting jeans
Korean 스키니진
  • 스키니진 (seukinijin)form-fitting jeans
Polish rurki
  • rurkiform-fitting jeans
Swedish stuprörsjeans
  • stuprörsjeansform-fitting jeans
Cite this entry
APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “skinny jeans,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/skinny%20jeans.

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