Sellsword

A fighter who sells his services to the highest bidder. See mercenary, hired gun.

I tried to steal Gears of War 2, but those stupid sellswords at the mall caught me.

by BennettPrescott March 25, 2009

skelly

a game played on the floor (usually in the foyer of the project building) using bottle tops etc... that are filled with wax. Usually crayon wax melted with a lighter into the top. Boxes are set up about 4 to 5 feet away from each other in a diagonal fashion. Players must move from box to box totaling 10 or more boxes. In the center is a set of boxes referred to as "Skelly". Skelly is synonymous with jail (yes, played in the hood go figure). You flick tops with a finger/thumb motion across ground to slide box to box ultimately hoping to get to the center unscathed. Meanwhile knocking the hell out of other players tops and "knocking them out the box" thereby eliminating your opponents. Usually the "top" aka Skelly top is made from a gallon milk top or some other lid from a beverage. Some flamboyant players will use olive jar tops or pickle jar tops (again filled with wax and pretty heavy) which serve a dramatic purpose when knocking the hell out of an opponents top. Finesse and strategy play important roles in ones success as you must be able to flick tops into small boxes drawn on the floor. Missing your box jeopardizes being put in Skelly and thereby not being able to participate for a period. Using a large top makes for a dramatic smacking of the opponents top out of their box. A successful player will move from box to box until flicking their top into center box thus winning game. You can be knocked into or out of Skelly by a sympathetic person.

kids gamesprojectshallwayskelly

by freezyfreaky June 28, 2009

ninja skills

High level abilities bordering on super-natural. Not necessarily a reference to fighting ability, but can refer to any skill.

Grandmaster Flash got ninja skills.

by fireninja October 24, 2003

Sex Skills

To indicate a stark change from an ordinary kick-a-about to swaggering showboating, resulting from the unexpected presence of female spectators during a game of football.

Involves teenage boys between the ages of 12-18 going from a jovial game of heads and volleys to Cruyff turns, Beckham-esque curling free kicks, aggressive diving headers, Roy Keane/Alf-Inge Haaland slide tackling, completely unnecessary keepie-uppie and never passing the ball - in a vain attempt to attract the female spectator.

Originated in Lincolnshire circa 2000.

Ben - "We were having a decent game and then the Year Ten girls arrived..."

Beeda - "...so Macca turned to sex skills?"

sex skills

by Quelmo Rodriguez June 28, 2010

Social Skills

A new cultural emphasis designed to replace the ability to do one's job well. Since industrial talent distrubutes unevenly across certain gender and racial bounderies, the disparity creates an opportunity for unscrupulous politicians to manipuate the situation emotionally (demagoguery) and take power. The approach relies on research such as Dunbar's "Social Brain Hypothesis," in which the scientist shows that the human brain evolved to be larger in order to have greater "Machiavellian Intelligence," or to be able to better manipulate social situations.

It's all about conniving and fucking people to get to the top. The foil of someone with bad "social skills" is the clumsy engineer. However, people tend to forget that the engineer works exceptionally hard, is brilliant at constructing civilizations, and does not become a military dictator easily. Politicians with great "social skills" are the usual suspects.

People who promote social skills, things like "EQ," nearly always come at it from a humanitarian angle. They will try to claim that people without social skills are insensitive, mean, or have no "common sense." While this might have some merit, it neglects a critical piece of information. Empathy is not a one-way highway. It allows a mother to take care of a child. It also allows a slick used car salesman to take advantage of an elderly person.

It also allows Joseph Stalin to murder 100 million Russian peasants.

Nerd: "Wow! I just studied really hard and got a 98 on my math test"

Politician: "I went out and had fun. Then I found the answers online. Me and all my friends got 100's. You have bad social skills."

Nerd: " :( . That's not fair. "

by UniVeritas September 19, 2011

skell

Any lowlife drug addict on welfare. Can usually be found in shit neighborhoods drinking beer all fucking day. Identified by missing teeth, bad skin, being crack-thin (like a skeleton, hence the word: skell), and stinking of booze.

Man, this fuckin' skell asked me for a cigarette. Ugh, he wouldn't stop talkin' to me.

by DoucheFuck September 1, 2003

skelldogmillionnaire

Another alternative to the below:
Ruff, Digusting, Butterzzz, Krutzz

"errr did you see that girl over there?"

"nah man why?"

"ahhh duuuude she wass Skelldogmillionnaire fo shaww"

by gstar dstar June 16, 2009