skell
verb1
Slang To fall off or fall over.
- She went skelling over on the ice.
skell
nounEtymology * 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.
- Did you see those two skells lying in the doorway?
2
Law enforcement, Police New York, US, Jargon, Slang A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.