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sketchy

adj.
1. Something that seems hastily detailed, missing a few important parts. The result is something that hints at a full figure, but leads to uncertainty as to how it could fully be developed.

2. Seeming untrustworthy, or of dubious and indiscernible motive. This can be used to describe people that are difficult to be understood yet still have a layer of rationality that people can feel, but can't predict.

3. A feeling to describe a situation where you feel physical or sexual danger/unease. This results from feelings of uncertainty when you are talking with someone who is telling you that he/she is intending to act genuinely, but his/her actions do not reinforce this, and seem to reinforce the feelings of danger.

(Author: As a note of advice: if you be forthright and are daring enough to present exactly what you want and to talk about it, as well as why you do what you do, people will know what to expect and can interpret you in an understanding tone.)
1.a. That picture is quite sketchy, I think I can tell what's going on, but I'm not sure.
1.b. That guy looks kinda sketchy; I can kinda tell he's tall, but I can't see much of his face because of his posture.

2.a. John is sketchy: he looked at me in an awkward way when giving me a pick-up line. I'm not sure if he's got a weird sense of humor to make fun of his pick-up line, or if he's a rapist.
2.b. Alice is sketchy, because she always has a constant, strange grin on her face and opens her eyes wider when she jokes about sex with me.

3.a. Dominick told me that he was only interested in a non-sexual relationship, but it was a bit sketchy because he kept caressing my butt when I didn't want or expect him to.
3.b. When Brian came over to our table, he seemed kinda sketchy. He felt eager to be our friend, but his actions seemed to be of distrust and being ill-at-ease, like he might rush to defend himself.
3.c. Jackie was supposed to be calm and relaxed when she came over for lunch, but since she kept fidgeting uncomfortably in her seat like she was waiting for something, she seemed really sketchy.
by SoreThumb May 27, 2006
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To perform an illegal and dangerous act of taxiing vehicles, past-time/sport/activity originating from the city of Chicago.

It is performed by being hidden from sight at a stop sign and as a vehicle starts to take off, while ducking down below the back window, one runs up behind the vehicle and takes hold of it's rear bumper, squats down and skiis to or near their destination, where they release the bumper and walk or grab the next taxi. You wait until the vehicle starts to take off so that the vehicle can gain momentum and not be weighed down at the start.

A master skeetcher is one who has never been spotted or noticed by the driver or passengers until parting from the vehicle. They can take hold of the bumper without sound or movement on the vehicle and never fall off or get hung up on a bumper. They are light, but firm on their feet and can own the same pair of shoes for years, without wearing the soles down. They also have saved one or many of their friends from injury caused by losing grip of a bumper and can switch places without fear of losing grip him/herself.
Plenty of kids were injured over the years by assholes who intentionally fishtailed toward poles and signs while kids were skeetching their rear bumpers.

It was a fun thing for us to do through the 70s and 80s and I feel for the kids who can't play like we did, due to the rising population of sadistic individuals, who hide behind the mask that they're something tough, because they're angry they weren't sexually abused a by family members while growing up.
by strEt-Ys December 13, 2010
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etch-a-sketchy

That nasty guy at the club was etch-a-sketchy.
by SA85 December 6, 2006
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hella sketchy

A Rapper who recently died due to an Opioid Overdose
Guy 1: RIP Hella Sketchy that man changed my life
Guy 2: Who tf is he??
by cyyst_ July 19, 2019
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sketchy

This expression was first coined in reference to hastily drawn out, or sketched, building/construction plans, which were uncertain at best and disastrous at worst. The overall thread of meaning is the same, but now applies to morality/legality. On the overall continuim of goodness, things progress, in order: safe, sketchy, shady, outright criminal.
Getting wasted and gambling away half your paycheck in Nevada may be legal, but its definitely sketchy.
by Al February 26, 2004
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Sketchy

1.Looking unsafe

2.Flat out not a good idea

3.An excuse not to do something stupid your friends want you to do

4.A feeling of paranoia
"Ride down that ramp" i dunno dude looks kinda sketchy

"hey lets smoke this blunt right here" Nah not here seems a bit sketchy
by IIOMG iTz Wiked June 8, 2009
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A really shady character, not one you would want to meet in a dark alleyway
Did you see that guy back there? He was really sketchy.
by notafanofsketchypeople November 16, 2004
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