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語源 1

• 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.

別の表記

• skel

名詞

skell (複数形 skells)

1. (slang, US, New York) a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.

   Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?

2. (slang, US, New York, police jargon) A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.

同意語

• See also Thesaurus:vagabond

参照

• The City in Slang, New York Life and Popular Speech, by Irving Lewis Allen, 1993.[1]
• Dictionary of American Regional English, by Joan Houston Hall, 2002[2]

動詞

skell (三人称単数 現在形 skells, 現在分詞 skelling, 過去形および過去分詞形 skelled)

1. (slang, intransitive) To fall off or fall over.

   She went skelling over on the ice.

アナグラム

• Kells, kells