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"etymology_text": "* Perhaps from skeleton, describing the often skeletal appearance of drug users.\n* Alternatively, from skellum or skelder (\"to beg in the streets\"). Used by Ben Jonson, 1599.\n* In the sense of a suspicious person, popularized by the American TV police drama NYPD Blue.",
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"(slang, intransitive) To fall off or fall over."
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