foreskin
noun
fore·skin
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Definition of foreskin
: a fold of skin that covers the glans of the penis
— called also prepuce
Examples of foreskin in a Sentence
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Jesse’s vampire friend Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) is captured and tortured by having his foreskin repeatedly removed. — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, "Preacher is unwatched, unloved, and doomed — but Tulip O’Hare goes on," 14 Aug. 2019 Smegma, a bodily secretion made up of dead skin cells and oily secretions, settles beneath the foreskin. — Christina Oehler, Health.com, "What Is Circumcision? 9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Male Circumcision, but Should," 20 June 2019 Furthermore, Jewish and Muslim males would be born without foreskins. — Quanta Magazine, "Can Darwinian Evolution Explain Lamarckism?," 11 May 2017 The crux of the treatment is a fluid containing EGF or epidermal growth factor (FDA-approved), obtained from the progenitor cells of human fibroblasts from Korean newborn baby foreskin. — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, "I Tried The ‘Penis Facial’," 16 May 2018 Circumcision involves surgically cutting off some or all of a penis’s foreskin. — Zahra Barnes, SELF, "11 Things Everyone Should Know About Uncircumcised Penises," 29 Dec. 2018 Since babies are born with their foreskins intact, uncircumcised penises are actually the biological default. — Zahra Barnes, SELF, "11 Things Everyone Should Know About Uncircumcised Penises," 29 Dec. 2018 The team take specimens of brain, spinal cord, lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, spleen, muscle, bone marrow, adrenal glands, thyroid, lymph nodes, genital-tract tissues, foreskin and intestine. — The Economist, "HIV+ volunteers are bequeathing their organs to a new project," 31 May 2018 The first few all involving making sure my face is super-clean — all the better to, counterintuitively, dirty it up later with Korean baby foreskin — go figure. — Kathleen Hou, The Cut, "I Tried The ‘Penis Facial’," 16 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'foreskin.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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More Definitions for foreskin
foreskin
noun
English Language Learners Definition of foreskin
: a fold of skin that covers the end of the penis
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foreskin
noun
fore·skin
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Medical Definition of foreskin
: a retractable fold of skin that covers the glans of the penis
— called also prepuce