skell
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 5
Definition of skell
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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(New-York, US, slang)a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
“Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?”
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noun
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(New-York, US, slang)a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
“Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?”
- (New-York, US, jargon, slang)A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.
verb
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(intransitive, slang)To fall off or fall over.
“She went skelling over on the ice.”
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Etymology
* Perhaps from skeleton, describing the often skeletal appearance of drug users. * Alternatively, from skellum or skelder ("to beg in the streets"). Used by Ben Jonson, 1599. * In the sense of a suspicious person, popularized by the American TV police drama NYPD Blue.
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