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The website called urbandictionarys: "What's the skinny?" originated as military slang before or during WWII when official orders were sent on onion skin paper, so the men would ask their commander "What's the skinny?" to find out what the inside, confidential orders were. Gradually, the expression made its way beyond the military to American slang in general. The Oxford English Dictionary, the authority on English language history, dates the first common use of it in American speech as 1959.

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