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skeezy en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /ˈskiːzi/

Etymology

US, 1992. Variant of sleazy, possibly influenced by sketchy (“dubious, unnerving”); alternatively analyzed as blend of sketchy + sleazy.

Meanings

1. (slang) Despicable, tasteless.
   • “It feels really different to pay for access to people,” said Kathryn D. Coduto, a Boston University professor who studies dating apps. “Paying for it makes it feel a little skeezy.” 2024 March 12, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Kathryn D. Coduto, “Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
2. (slang) Sleazy.
   • The pregnant daughter was yawning a lot and kept trying to lean on her skeezy boyfriend, who was housing a bag of Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos and not really sharing. 2014, Alena Smith, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails, page 192:
   • I went to Rock Jungle twice and it was a disaster. It was filled with skeezy old men with bad cologne and gold chains trying to pick up eighteen-year-old girls. 2005, Dan Lieberman, Carnegie Mellon University, page 93:
   • I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom. 2002, Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories, page xiv:

Forms

Deriveds

skeeziness

Relateds

skeezer · skeeze