v. 1 Sometimes, peel off. skin, strip (off), pare, flay, flake off, descale, decorticate; shuck, hull, bark, scale; desquamate Beulah, peel me a grape 2 strip, undress, disrobe; do a striptease In the last act, everyone peels to the bare skin 3 peel off. take off or doff, strip off I peeled off my coat and dived into the canal to save her
n. 4 skin, rind, coating, peeling: Don't you like candied orange peel?