"What's the skeenar, Pops?"
Usage Note: Permutations of this root have manifested in
contemporary parlance to encompass a wide variety of
definitions, often with little or no etymological fidelity to it's natural origin. Terms such as 'skeeny', 'skeenarific' and 'skeenacity' for example, generally connote a vague sense of the favorable or auspicious, whereas the verb to 'skeen' can mean 'to acquire or achieve by disreputable means'. Modern linguists tend to view 'skeenar' and it's variants as inordinately elastic terms; whether this helps or hinders their
popularity remains to be seen.