shirts and skins

English

A stickball game in progress in 1999 in Havana, Cuba

Noun

shirts and skins pl (plural only)

1. A method of indicating team membership, typically when played by boys or men in informal sporting contests, in which the members of one team (the "skins") remove their shirts and play shirtless, while the others (the "shirts") leave their shirts on.
2. Any game (especially basketball) played using the above method.