Skeezy

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːzi

Origin

US, 1992. Variant of sleazy, possibly influenced by sketchy ("dubious, unnerving"); alternatively analyzed as sketchysleazy.

Full definition of skeezy

Adjective

1. (slang) Sleazy.
• 2002, Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories, p. xiv: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.
• 2005, Dan Lieberman, Carnegie Mellon University, p. 93: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, Xichel, Delicate Relations, p. 83:It was just what you would expect from a neighborhood joint, dank and rather skeezy, painted ruby red and black, the color of vice.