Definition of "peel" []

• The skin or rind of certain fruits and vegetables. (noun)
• A chemical peel. (noun)
• To strip or cut away the skin, rind, or bark from; pare. (verb-transitive)
• To strip away; pull off: peeled the label from the jar. (verb-transitive)
• To lose or shed skin, bark, or other covering. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The thought of Beck slipping on a banana peel is making me laugh like crazy!"
• "Just gut 'em, sprinkle with a little lemon pepper (on the inside) and place them on the coals ... turning a few times until done, the scales and skin peel right off, and they are very tasty."
• "You have these thin sheets of dough, which you have to peel from a stack, and then if the dough gets a little too sticky, you know, the sheets will break."