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sky pilot noun a clergyman, especially in the forces or the prison service UK, 1887 Originally nautical slang.- Jack, I swear I’m no sky-pilot, but a creep pad turns into a confession booth as soon as I squat in it. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 88, 1946
- This geezer used to have long talks with the sky pilot — Frank Norman, Bang To Rights, p. 143, 1958
- A soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot / Remembers the words / Thou shalt not kill / Sky pilot ... sky pilot[.] — Eric Burdon, Sky Pilot, 1967
- I gotta twin brother in England called Kevin who’s a sky-pilot. — Barry Humphries, Bazz Pulls It Off!, 1971
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 159, 1981
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 105, 1996
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