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Skell

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Skell or skel.

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Etymology

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.

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Noun

skell or skel (plural skells or skels)

(slang). Used in a derogatory manner to describe a person thought lacking in character, values, personal hygiene or general worth. It evokes the image of a homeless person (formerly a "bum") a wino or a junkie low life. Common among New York City law enforcement, corrections and fire department personnel.
Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?
A square in the board game skelly.

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References

The City in Slang, New York Life and Popular Speech, by Irving Lewis Allen, 1993 [1] (http://www.stwing.upenn.edu/~sepinwal/faq.html#skel)
Dictionary of American Regional English, by Joan Houston Hall, 2002 [2] (http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/DYSADARE.html)

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