Green’s Dictionary of Slang

jimmy skinner n.

dinner.

1880		D.W. Barrett Life and Work among Navvies 43: ‘Jimmy Skinner’ stands for dinner.
1891		J. Bent Criminal Life 271: Jimmy Skinner ... Dinner.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 181/1: Ned Skinner (Rhyming) Dinner.
1911		J.W. Horsley Memoirs of a ‘Sky Pilot’ 253: The children gave me such words as ‘needle and thread’ for bread, ‘you and me’ for tea, ‘Jim Skinner’ for dinner.
1932		‘P.P.’ Rhy. Sl. 7: Come on, boys ‘rats and mice,’ who pays for the ‘Joe Skinner’.
1935		Thieves Slang ms list from District Police Training Centre, Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwicks 6: Jimmy Skinner: Dinner.
a.1945		L. Payne private coll. n.p.: Dinner Jim Skinner.
1946		St. Vincent Troubridge ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: johnny skinner. Dinner. (Origin uncertain, probably American.) Agreed. The English equivalent is Lilley and Skinner, after a well-known firm of shoe manufacturers with many retail shops.
1953		Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn).
1960		J. Franklyn Dict. of Rhy. Sl.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl. 18: Jim Skinner – Dinner.
1979		R. Barker Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. 39: He is in a right two-and-eight, thinking he has missed his Jim Skinner.
1981		P. Wright Cockney Dialect and Sl. 103: Jimmy Skinner ‘dinner’.