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terms | skelled |

As a noun terms

is .

As a verb skelled is

(skell).

terms

English

Noun

(head)

    • Statistics

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    skelled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (skell)

    • skell

    English

    Alternative forms

    *skel

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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?
  • (slang, US, New York) (informal police jargon) A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler. (Compare scumbag.) Popularized on the American TV police drama NYPD Blue .

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (skell)
  • (slang) To fall off or fall over
    • She went skelling over on the ice.

    References

    *The City in Slang, New York Life and Popular Speech , by Irving Lewis Allen, 1993.[http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~sepinwal/faq.html
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    • *Dictionary of American Regional English , by Joan Houston Hall, 2002[http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/DYSADARE.html]