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skell; skel
noun
a vagrant, especially of the thuggish sort US
Seemingly related to the C17 “skelder”, an honourable cant term for “a professional beggar” which was long obsolete when “skell” started to show up in New York in the early 1970s. A favourite word of police television dramas in the 1990s; the screenplay by Gardner Stern for episode 2 of season 2 of NYPD Blue that aired in September 1994 was titled For Whom the Skell Rolls.- Of course some a the skells from the bar worked their way up and congratulated and grabbed what they could. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 102, 1957
- Thus, when one policeman says to another, “Did you collar the skell?”, he is asking, “Did you arrest the drunken derelict?” — New York Times, 15 February 1970
- I can’t tell you damn decoy guys from the rest of the skels. — Charles Whited, Chiodo, p. 68, 1973
- See that skell in the dirty sneakers? He can’t afford no gun, but he will tire-iron the first john that turns the corner. — Edwin Torres, Q & A, p. 19, 1977
- That’s what he wanted, to be put out of his misery, like them skells you see in the middle of East Side Highway on a foggy night. — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 335, 1979
- Three fucking days living in the middle of these skels[.] — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 121, 1979
- These “skells” are not merely down and out. Many are insane, checked out of New York hospitals in the early 1970’s when it was decided that long-term institutionalization was doing them little good. — New York Times, p. 6–20, 31 January 1982
- The drug-pitch skells would rather tear off with a wallet than transact an actual exchange, and they make the teenage chicken fags seem like the most discreet commodity on the street. — Josh Alan Friedman, Tales of Times Square, p. 51, 1986
- — Carsten Stroud, Close Pursuit, p. 276, 1987
- But where was the satisfaction? Even the skells in the cells treated Jimmy like shit, not even regarding him as a real lawyer because he was free. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 445, 1992
- Without me, you, personally, every fuckin’ wiseguy skell around’ll take a piece of your fuckin’ Jew ass. — Casino, 1995
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