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Definition of thick-skinned adjective from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

thick-skinned

adjective

1(of a person) not easily upset by criticism or unkind comments You have to be pretty thick-skinned to do this job.

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2(of fruit) having a thick skin a thick-skinned variety of grape opposite thin-skinned

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