skin bones

noun

a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.

Also, skin and bone.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English

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skin and bones
noun
a person who is unusually thin and scrawny [syn: thin person] [ant: butterball]

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