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Short for skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ skew-ə-morf, or skeuomorphism.

Usually a digital interface that employs "real-world" textures or effects to make an interface feel more comfortable, or more like the original thing it is emulating.
Skeu in a digital notebook application may be leather stitching and texture as well as torn paper details to emulate a real-world notebook.
Skeu by ArtInRuins September 11, 2012
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Pheurton Skeurto 

A slightly creepy(in a good way) piano waltz, by the awesome band Sunny Day Real Estate. SDRE=Early emo music.
How will they know
Just where to find?
Under this bridge
I lie down
-Pheurton Skeurto, SDRE
A word never written, but used vocally to describe a feeling of confusion, awkwardness, or sketchyness
"Hey, do you wanna go to a movie with me on saturday?"
"No your ugly and I hate you"
"Skeugh!"
skeugh by LukeONER September 20, 2005

Skeuomorphic 

skeu·o·morph

an ornament or design on an object copied from a form of the object when made from another material or by other techniques, as an imitation metal rivet mark found on handles of prehistoric pottery.
Apple designs their phones as skeuomorphic
Skeuomorphic by Spyro_7 January 26, 2013

memetic skeuomorph 

Aesthetic contra-reference that contains decidable information.

An augmented-reality attribute in hyper-reality that serves a functional purpose.

A virtual attribute made of a functional (homoiconic) computer language.

Contains attributes of aesthetic self-reference.

Direct technological precursor to conscious self-reference.
Memetic skeuomorphs contra-referential, recursive, and functional.
the goat who likes beans and chocolate milk they are also really tall and loves the color pink.
Yo have you heard that new skeuso that shit fire bruh....
skeuso by NOOSETHAHUNGBOY January 22, 2022

ironic skeuomorph 

A skeumorph that is self-functional.

Self-function begins as meta-representation (juxtaposition) and ends as representation (self-reference).

A medium for conveying irony.

Including but not limited to vignettes, books, television, GIF's, and memes.
An ironic skeuomorph is self-referencing to the point of being a medium-in-itself.
ironic skeuomorph by sandraxine September 11, 2018