Slang word for "criminal" used back in the 1940s-1950s

When you eat dirt for the first time and leave your family to build a shack in the woods

A bottom-feeder, parasite, low-life con-artist type. They are usually found looking to cheat/beg others out of small amounts of money, or freeloading. May also be a drug addict, alcoholic, homeless, dirty, or a criminal, but not necessarily.

Often heard being used by old school New Yorkers.

A street person, homeless or bum, especially a beggar or revolting vagrant. From the Dutch "skelder", to cheat. Usage more common on the East Coast.

Short for skeleton . Used by the N.Y.P.D.
to describe Crack users who generally lose weight and resemble skeletons. It has come to be used to describe all criminals.

A "1337 H4x0r" on the XBSB!

Skel is a term meaning "Cool", "Pimp", "Awesome". It derives from Scituate, MA from a bunch of bored teenagers who are sick of trying to be wiggers and say "That's so PIMP!"