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"A robot or android with humanoid flesh and skin."
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"ref": "2002, William True, The Cow Spoke French: The Story of Sgt. William True, American Paratrooper in World War II",
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"ref": "1895 November 16, The Metal Worker",
"text": "It is possible that many men can be trusted to make no mistakes and are above a skin job, but that the plumbing trade has assumed a great breadth in the present day is also true , and it is not well to take the risk of every man being capable of correctly designing all work which he may be called on to execute.",
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"ref": "1908 December, Carpentry and Building, volume 30, page 410",
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"ref": "1912 June 1, J. J. Cosgrove, “Plumbing for Profit”, in Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting",
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"ref": "1926 June, “Killing the Golden Goose”, in Building Age and National Builder, volume 48",
"text": "The poor sill hasn't even proper dirt support at the corners. Probably as raw a skin job as ever constructed to fool the public.",
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"A hastily or shoddily done piece of work."
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"(obsolete) A hastily or shoddily done piece of work."
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