Usually means: Homeless person, often considered disreputable.
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  1. skell: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. skell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. skell: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Skell, skell: Wordnik
  5. skell: Wiktionary
  6. skell: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. skell: Dictionary.com
  8. SkELL, Skell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Skell: The Word Detective
  10. skell: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. Skell: World Wide Words

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  1. skell: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
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  3. skell: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (skell)

noun:  (slang, US, New York) a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway.
noun:  (slang, US, New York, police jargon) A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To fall off or fall over.

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