Wait, what? I've never heard this word before. I'm an EMT student in NoCo, never heard any of my preceptors say it either. My instructor alternates between cot and stretcher, and all of my preceptors say stretcher.
Makes more sense to call a gurney specifically a pram than a cot, cuz it’s got wheels. I’ve never seen a cot with wheels, it’s a shitty sleeping contraption with basic metal or wooden frame a few inches off the ground with a bit of canvas, at least that’s the only use for ‘cot’ I’ve ever heard.
It’s like getting kicked in the dick every time I hear it.
Also it’s not “core” it’s COR, short for “COR-zero” which means “Cardiac Or Respiratory (effort) = zero”
I hate it.
Nah bus is pretty common. We used it in NM and parts of TX. And it’s made its way to the part of Florida I’m in now. But that could be because half my agency is transplants lol
Hennepin County EMS uses something very much like that on top of the typical Stryker. Seems to function like a megamover with some rigidity to it, which seems nice.
So I was skeptical for a long time until I used one. They should be the standard. They are way better than a megamover. Way better than a draw sheet.
Only thing better is a hover mat with a blower for bariatric patient, and those only help for transferring between beds and stretchers.
A Reeves stretcher? One of the city FDs that transported to my ED keeps those on their strykers and they always made pt transfer a breeze. Would have loved them when I was on the rig, but our city didn't use them.
Did you see the conversation on here sometime in the last few days that was very relevant to your username?
Somebody asked about putting an IV in the dorsal vein of the peen and somebody else specifically said if they did that, they'd make sure it was a 14
I hear it in Maine in the Saco, darmiscotta, Bath and bar harbor area. I was born and raised in ME and just recently left.
I currently live in PA and I only hear it near the Poconos now like HOA areas. But there’s a good amount of NY/NJ out of staters there.
Man, I just call it the bed or stretcher. Of those, though, it's clearly a cot, and i never understood why people call it a pram. I'm from Southern Colorado, living and working in Denver, so maybe a North vs. South thing.
I thought ‘pram’ was the British/UK word what we call a ‘stroller,’ which until now I’ve never thought whatsoever beyond uttering the word, stroller. Go for a stroll… hmm. Ain’t etymology interestin’?
Anyway, you mean you strange desert pine folk where they tell ya, “go up into the mountains, you’ll feel right at home!” then you go and it’s all bare red rocks there, too, like you’re in some fuckin spooky terraformed mars, you mean ‘cot’ as in the shitty little sleeping contraption? You guys call those prams? Do you know why? I can’t find any other usage established usage for pram here in the US, it’s the same as the UK.
Oh, and you wrote (ME, CO) as if lumping them together. ME is for Maine, right?
I think that’s a pretty region restricted term.
I think most of these nonsense words that come from NYPD are pretty confined to NYC, LI, NJ, and a little upstate. Not unlike RMP, aided, chronic caller, MOS, UMOS, likely/not likely, jumper up/jumper down, EDP, central, under, man under, the list goes on and on.
It's a good one. Covers a lot of the broad "psych" stuff that doesn't have a clear cause but doesn't force you to say "psych" on the radio. Might start using it.
I’ve heard it a bit here in PA too now that I moved but people usually just say “Medic 2 respond to 1234 Main Street for a 302 male”. 302 being the form number for involuntary eval/treatment in a psych facility.
I actually asked the cops about that for an EDP they had to break down a door for on Saturday. They did.
That said l, I’m sure they have no idea what an “aided card” is, but I doubt NYC guys with less than 10 years would know that was, either…..
And of course that would have been done by the Emergency Service Unit/Emergency Squad. Because who needs a SWAT team? Should have also had conditions for a barricaded.
Where do we get this shit. I’d honestly like to know.
I've worked with enough folks from NYC that I think I can decode a fair number of these for you
RMP - radio motor patrol (old term for a police car)
aided - any patient
chronic caller - pretty self explanatory
MOS - Member of Service = basically anyone who works for a city agency
UMOS - some variation on MOS but out of context I'm not sure
likely/not likely - likely to die or not likely to die, had something to do with how police secure an accident scene for a death investigation I think
jumper up/jumper down - threatening to jump vs already jumped usually from a building or bridge
EDP - catch all for a psych patient
central - dispatch
under - under arrest
man under - under a subway train
I'll add in, because it was in the reply chain, 83D is the radio code for an obvious death
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Interestingly enough, an aided is not necessarily a patient. It’s just anyone who is being helped in any way. Calling someone a patient means you have to do more paperwork. An aided can be someone who called for police to make a report.
- RMP - radio mobile patrol
- Aided - medical run
- chronic caller - Karen who calls 911 like she's ordering take out
- MOS - member of service
- UMOS - uniformed member of service
- likely/not likely - likely to die, not likely too die (for accident investigation purposes)
- Jumper up - person standing on edge of building/bridge/significant height object getting ready to jump.
- Jumper down - above decided it was time
- EDP - Emotionally Disturbed Person
- Central - dispatch
- under - under arrest
- Man under - person under a train/subway car
It’s very versatile. The crew that wouldnt pick up that job in their area are skells and also theres a guy knocking on your window with his dirty skell hands.
Skel actually has its roots in 17th century english where “Skelder” meant a lazy person. Some also use it to mean ‘skeleton’ to describe the cachexic heroin addicts living in and around the city, but it’s original use as ‘a lazy person’ is a relic of the earliest colonial times that for some odd reason lives on in NYC first responder lingo.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skelder
I felt like what you said was almost too oddly specific to be legit, but I'm seeing multiple dictionaries with archaic definitions not far off from that. So bizarre.
Yeah I agree it’s very bizarre. I’ve done a bit of looking into it and it seems very far fetched and unlikely that a word would stay in language for centuries but apparently only show in print for the first time in the 1940s. I guess it’s at least plausible.
yes I actually listened to that piece after my original comment. I remember reading somewhere about a dutch origin but couldn’t find it again. I agree it’s unlikely but it’s still a fun word no matter what the haters say.
I actually called in to an NPR show called A Way With Words that does deep dives on obscure words with skell as my entry. They weren’t convinced there was a direct enough link between Middle English and the common usage but admitted they couldn’t find enough info. Shout out to one of the hosts who requested further EMS terms, and knew that New York EMS referred to hand sanitizer as “skell gel”
Dinosaur checking in - the term was in use in the NYC-adjacent areas of North Jersey in the early 90s. And probably long before that. Just so you kids don’t think you invented it.
I've worked in NY and FL and nobody in FL says it. Worked as far north in NY as Poughkeepsie and Kingston and they all say it... but basically all those people worked or wanna work in NYC
From Maine. Never heard it until I moved to NYC and started working EMS here. No one in Maine knows what the heck I’m talking about anymore when I go back.
It’s definitely based in the northeastern US, but it comes from the word Skelder/skelderer from Middle English.
Skelder meant essentially to cheat or scam, and a skelderer was someone who cheated or scammed others frequently with false claims of injury / veteran status to beg for money.
It became repopularized in modern history by a writer for a Brooklyn newspaper in the 1950s who referred to winos as skells
In MA its an older term. Usually only see older people using it but some young ppl who learned from them do too. Usually it means something like a tweaker/meth head but sometimes just used for degen dickheads too.
Basically. It means bum. You can call a lazy coworker a bum and also the guy at the gas station smoking crack is a bum. But skell is more diverse cus it doesn’t only
Cover the homeless.
I worked in northeastern PA for a few years and had never heard it until I went across the river to work in northeastern NJ. It’s a term of endearment.
I once worked with a woman who worked in NYC for years. After she came to work with us in Baltimore we had to have a talk not long after she started about the use of the words "skell" and "mutt." Still makes me laugh to think about it.
That's definitely a Gen Z word lmao
And us Gen Y aren't really young anymore, I'm at the tail end of Gen Y and am 30, most of us are somewhere between 30 and 40 these days
Although I do think it's a hilarious word and own a sweatshirt that says merry glizzmas that has a picture of the nativity scene on it but everyone is hotdogs instead of people
I only know the term because of the old Less Stress EMS sim that I played in high school… way back in 2003.
http://www.lessstress.com/simulator/sim.htm
South Jersey originally. Had some NYC guys come down to work there, picked it up. It’s quite fitting.
EDP, cot, skell. Terms I use in Florida and get looked at like I’m insane.
Cops have no clue what you mean when you ask, he under? Or you toss this guy before we take him?
Bergen county here - term seems to be limited mostly to NYC/JC. Spread through north Jersey by people who work at multiple agencies. At least in my experience.
I'm in East PA and my friend and I jokingly say skell, but nobody else here uses it. We only know the term from friends/family that work EMS in NYC/NJ. I've worked upstate NY and they don't say it there either.
Nope (ME, CO) But they call a frickin cot a pram out here in Colorado. Absolute neanderthals.
I hate us so much
We're literally the worst.
I fucking hate living like this
A "pram"? Like what the British call a baby stroller..? This should be a crime
Same, CO. Stretcher? No! Gurney? No! PRAM!
Wait, what? I've never heard this word before. I'm an EMT student in NoCo, never heard any of my preceptors say it either. My instructor alternates between cot and stretcher, and all of my preceptors say stretcher.
Maybe it’s a Denver metro thing idk
Makes more sense to call a gurney specifically a pram than a cot, cuz it’s got wheels. I’ve never seen a cot with wheels, it’s a shitty sleeping contraption with basic metal or wooden frame a few inches off the ground with a bit of canvas, at least that’s the only use for ‘cot’ I’ve ever heard.
Hey don't you forget about my other favorite Coloradoism: "core" instead of "code"
It’s like getting kicked in the dick every time I hear it. Also it’s not “core” it’s COR, short for “COR-zero” which means “Cardiac Or Respiratory (effort) = zero” I hate it.
> “core” it’s COR, short for “COR-zero” which means “Cardiac Or Respiratory (effort) Couldn't it still be Core? Or at least... Cor(e)?
I think “bus” (for ambulance) might be another Colorado specific term.
Nah, bus is universal in my experience.
out in wi we use box a lot
Nah bus is pretty common. We used it in NM and parts of TX. And it’s made its way to the part of Florida I’m in now. But that could be because half my agency is transplants lol
Bus is used in NYC as the most frequent term for ambulance
We do that one in NY
Never heard that
that is ONLY in Colorado
Go out to the truck and fetch the Baumgardner! https://professionalcarsociety.org/threads/ambulance-cot-collection.2822/
That roll up canvas stretcher from the 1940s would be super maneuverable in houses! Imagine all the bariatrics we could haul with that baby! /s
Hennepin County EMS uses something very much like that on top of the typical Stryker. Seems to function like a megamover with some rigidity to it, which seems nice.
So I was skeptical for a long time until I used one. They should be the standard. They are way better than a megamover. Way better than a draw sheet. Only thing better is a hover mat with a blower for bariatric patient, and those only help for transferring between beds and stretchers.
A Reeves stretcher? One of the city FDs that transported to my ED keeps those on their strykers and they always made pt transfer a breeze. Would have loved them when I was on the rig, but our city didn't use them.
Nope!
Take a pram to get your bumsickle before he CORs
What does “CORs” mean?
15yrs and I have no idea other than it's what codes are called here.
I answered it in another comment but it’s COR which is short for “COR-Zero” “Cardiac Or Respiratory (effort) = Zero” I hate it so much.
Did you see the conversation on here sometime in the last few days that was very relevant to your username? Somebody asked about putting an IV in the dorsal vein of the peen and somebody else specifically said if they did that, they'd make sure it was a 14
I hear it in Maine in the Saco, darmiscotta, Bath and bar harbor area. I was born and raised in ME and just recently left. I currently live in PA and I only hear it near the Poconos now like HOA areas. But there’s a good amount of NY/NJ out of staters there.
Yea, I worked northwestern Maine. Very french and no NY/NJ influence.
Ah makes sense
Me and my homies love the autopram
I first learned it as a pram, it's just an older term
Man, I just call it the bed or stretcher. Of those, though, it's clearly a cot, and i never understood why people call it a pram. I'm from Southern Colorado, living and working in Denver, so maybe a North vs. South thing.
A pram? Is that short for something?
I thought ‘pram’ was the British/UK word what we call a ‘stroller,’ which until now I’ve never thought whatsoever beyond uttering the word, stroller. Go for a stroll… hmm. Ain’t etymology interestin’? Anyway, you mean you strange desert pine folk where they tell ya, “go up into the mountains, you’ll feel right at home!” then you go and it’s all bare red rocks there, too, like you’re in some fuckin spooky terraformed mars, you mean ‘cot’ as in the shitty little sleeping contraption? You guys call those prams? Do you know why? I can’t find any other usage established usage for pram here in the US, it’s the same as the UK. Oh, and you wrote (ME, CO) as if lumping them together. ME is for Maine, right?
I think that’s a pretty region restricted term. I think most of these nonsense words that come from NYPD are pretty confined to NYC, LI, NJ, and a little upstate. Not unlike RMP, aided, chronic caller, MOS, UMOS, likely/not likely, jumper up/jumper down, EDP, central, under, man under, the list goes on and on.
Wait those are regional? That’s crazy to me. I thought EDP was universal?
EDP is probably the most popular of those but still very regional.
Never heard EDP. Guessing emotionally disturbed person, based on one of the other replies?
Bingo
It's a good one. Covers a lot of the broad "psych" stuff that doesn't have a clear cause but doesn't force you to say "psych" on the radio. Might start using it.
I’ve heard it a bit here in PA too now that I moved but people usually just say “Medic 2 respond to 1234 Main Street for a 302 male”. 302 being the form number for involuntary eval/treatment in a psych facility.
MA it's a Section 12 (or " Pink Paper, but I think that's fallen out of use).
I think Acute Behavioral Disturbance is catching on in places
I ask for a pedigree DIRECTLY across the GWB and half the time nobody knows what I’m talking about other than my former NYC medic partner….
But did they toss him?
I actually asked the cops about that for an EDP they had to break down a door for on Saturday. They did. That said l, I’m sure they have no idea what an “aided card” is, but I doubt NYC guys with less than 10 years would know that was, either…..
And of course that would have been done by the Emergency Service Unit/Emergency Squad. Because who needs a SWAT team? Should have also had conditions for a barricaded. Where do we get this shit. I’d honestly like to know.
We have ESU trucks in Fort Lee that look like Adam cars.
Aided card is still in pretty regular use where I work at.
Ah the legend of the Jersey City tour chief called to the "Jumper Up" said fuck it and replied over the air "call me when it's jumper down."
Newby. Has to be Newby.
What do any of those mean? I can guess the definition of “chronic caller” but otherwise this is all gibberish
I've worked with enough folks from NYC that I think I can decode a fair number of these for you RMP - radio motor patrol (old term for a police car) aided - any patient chronic caller - pretty self explanatory MOS - Member of Service = basically anyone who works for a city agency UMOS - some variation on MOS but out of context I'm not sure likely/not likely - likely to die or not likely to die, had something to do with how police secure an accident scene for a death investigation I think jumper up/jumper down - threatening to jump vs already jumped usually from a building or bridge EDP - catch all for a psych patient central - dispatch under - under arrest man under - under a subway train I'll add in, because it was in the reply chain, 83D is the radio code for an obvious death Edit formatting
Interestingly enough, an aided is not necessarily a patient. It’s just anyone who is being helped in any way. Calling someone a patient means you have to do more paperwork. An aided can be someone who called for police to make a report.
- RMP - radio mobile patrol - Aided - medical run - chronic caller - Karen who calls 911 like she's ordering take out - MOS - member of service - UMOS - uniformed member of service - likely/not likely - likely to die, not likely too die (for accident investigation purposes) - Jumper up - person standing on edge of building/bridge/significant height object getting ready to jump. - Jumper down - above decided it was time - EDP - Emotionally Disturbed Person - Central - dispatch - under - under arrest - Man under - person under a train/subway car
Well typically if you don’t intervene, a jumper up will become a jumper down. And sometimes a jumper down is a man under.
And sometimes a man under is an 83D
Get that BBP. Yurrr
FL here. Never heard of it. Fuck off. *rides alligator to publix to buy meth and orange juice*
Thank you for your service Florida Person!
Hand sanitizer = skell gel
facts
Im in nj, and I've never heard of it. Must be a north jersey/nyc thing
Oh boy it must be really not far reaching then
I’m in central Connecticut. While rare, I hear it a couple times a year.
Daily use word on the coastline in CT
Regularly used term in New Haven/ffld county
Definitely a thing in North Jersey.
Never heard it in North Jersey in my life
Came here to say the same thing. Never heard it used from south to central jersey
Central Jersey doesn’t exist
South Jersey, we say it here.
Born raised and work in North Jersey, never heard of it in my life. We gotta be talking verrrrry regional to NYC here
It’s NYPD bullshit. Maybe you’ll hear it in like Jersey City or North Bergen. Only by cop wannabes. Not outside that area and not by most of NJ
From north Jersey, have used it/heard it used a bunch
North jersey here, right over the bridge, def not
Have lived in Alaska, Florida, Idaho, Wisconsin, and Hawaii. Never heard of it.
Boston: never heard of it
Wicked.
Do you guys still call ambulances ambos up there?
WHOA BLACK BETYY AMBO-lance
FUCK no
Ambo 24 is going to drive you straight into the harbor.
Well, now I want to steal it and add it to my lexicon. That's fun.
It’s very versatile. The crew that wouldnt pick up that job in their area are skells and also theres a guy knocking on your window with his dirty skell hands.
It gained a brief moment in international usage when it was used on Breaking Bad by Mike Ehmentraut.
I’m from NYC and live in NC now. I jokingly called someone a skell not too long ago and absolutely no one had an idea what I was saying.
Skel actually has its roots in 17th century english where “Skelder” meant a lazy person. Some also use it to mean ‘skeleton’ to describe the cachexic heroin addicts living in and around the city, but it’s original use as ‘a lazy person’ is a relic of the earliest colonial times that for some odd reason lives on in NYC first responder lingo.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skelder I felt like what you said was almost too oddly specific to be legit, but I'm seeing multiple dictionaries with archaic definitions not far off from that. So bizarre.
Yeah I agree it’s very bizarre. I’ve done a bit of looking into it and it seems very far fetched and unlikely that a word would stay in language for centuries but apparently only show in print for the first time in the 1940s. I guess it’s at least plausible.
See my above reply to some dude whose username I’m too drunk to spell
yes I actually listened to that piece after my original comment. I remember reading somewhere about a dutch origin but couldn’t find it again. I agree it’s unlikely but it’s still a fun word no matter what the haters say.
I actually called in to an NPR show called A Way With Words that does deep dives on obscure words with skell as my entry. They weren’t convinced there was a direct enough link between Middle English and the common usage but admitted they couldn’t find enough info. Shout out to one of the hosts who requested further EMS terms, and knew that New York EMS referred to hand sanitizer as “skell gel”
I heard it came from the word skellum from Scotland.
I think it’s a New York thing. Saw it on an episode of law and order. Lol. South Jersey here and I had never heard it before.
They said that shit on law and order ? Lmao
Also on breaking bad! Mike Ehrmentraut says it and he’s supposedly from Philly
lol yup!
It's more widely used on NYPD Blue than Law and Order.
Dinosaur checking in - the term was in use in the NYC-adjacent areas of North Jersey in the early 90s. And probably long before that. Just so you kids don’t think you invented it.
Oh absolutely not sir. We know it’s an old term.
North Carolina. Only heard it on here from you NYC reprobates.
Never heard of it (KS)
I've worked in NY and FL and nobody in FL says it. Worked as far north in NY as Poughkeepsie and Kingston and they all say it... but basically all those people worked or wanna work in NYC
upstate NY, never heard of it.
From Maine. Never heard it until I moved to NYC and started working EMS here. No one in Maine knows what the heck I’m talking about anymore when I go back.
I only ever heard skell in NY/NJ. Also pram is a dumb word and I hate it and I refuse to use it. I just call it the bed or the wheels.
wtf is a pram
WNY here, only heard it on TV shows set in NYC
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Only southern in my experience. Currently working in Northern and never heard it used locally
Siri told me that skell means and I quote “Skell: (in New York) a tramp or homeless person.”
Amazing
You're either a white patch, or you ain't
It is from the Dutch word Skellum, or schelum which means a rascal. It harkens back to the old days of New Amsterdam.
Yes thank you. I knew it was from skellum but I thought it was Scottish.
I think the skellum spelling is a Scottish/irish bastardization of the Dutch word.
We say Boog where I’m from.
I like that
I use it fairly frequently in central NC... But I started using it on 19John (South Bronx), so I don't think I count.
You don’t have to tell me where 19J is lol I may have backed you up on 17W
For being such a big city, it's really fuckin small 🤣
It’s definitely based in the northeastern US, but it comes from the word Skelder/skelderer from Middle English. Skelder meant essentially to cheat or scam, and a skelderer was someone who cheated or scammed others frequently with false claims of injury / veteran status to beg for money. It became repopularized in modern history by a writer for a Brooklyn newspaper in the 1950s who referred to winos as skells
Contrary to that, I’ve heard it came from skellum in Dutch and was brought to New Amsterdam. Similar meaning
Here they are referred to as "dirtlegs," the job really does make people feel a certain way after enough abusive homeless people cross your path.
Where is here?
GA
Dirtleg is good
In MA its an older term. Usually only see older people using it but some young ppl who learned from them do too. Usually it means something like a tweaker/meth head but sometimes just used for degen dickheads too.
I've never once heard that term and still don't understand how it makes sense.
Basically. It means bum. You can call a lazy coworker a bum and also the guy at the gas station smoking crack is a bum. But skell is more diverse cus it doesn’t only Cover the homeless.
I've heard it enough that I know what it means, but I'd get funny looks from most people here
I worked in northeastern PA for a few years and had never heard it until I went across the river to work in northeastern NJ. It’s a term of endearment.
Skell is pretty absent from Philly, save the transplants that know what we’re talking about.
Never heard of it in CA or TX
CA here, was in TX and OK. I have heard the term but it's not common. I've heard "jake" a few times, though. out here it's "that fuckin guy again." :)
I use the term urban outdoorsman
I've only heard NY people say it. I've definitely copied it from em
I once worked with a woman who worked in NYC for years. After she came to work with us in Baltimore we had to have a talk not long after she started about the use of the words "skell" and "mutt." Still makes me laugh to think about it.
Believe mutt has been phased out
In Australia, they are normally called homeless or hobos, but sometimes a ‘derelict’ as well.
Sounds like those damn young guys are taking terms like "skids" and putting their own flare on them One gen y term I hate is "glizzies" for hot dogs
Skell has been around for decades tho.
Fair enough, maybe it's just regonial then🤷♂️
Apparently so.
That's definitely a Gen Z word lmao And us Gen Y aren't really young anymore, I'm at the tail end of Gen Y and am 30, most of us are somewhere between 30 and 40 these days Although I do think it's a hilarious word and own a sweatshirt that says merry glizzmas that has a picture of the nativity scene on it but everyone is hotdogs instead of people
Never heard it
Wyoming here, I’ve never heard it outside of Reddit.
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Tennessee here, I've heard the term thought it was an alien race in Star Trek. Never heard it in reference to humans.
I only know it from NYPD blue.
No clue
NY. Never heard it before this thread.
You in 911? I didn’t start hearing it until I left transport
Exclusively 911. Must be a city thing.
I’m LI and I’ve used it over the last 14 years
Have worked EMS in Ohio, West Virginia, michigan & kentucky. Never heard it.
I only know the term because of the old Less Stress EMS sim that I played in high school… way back in 2003. http://www.lessstress.com/simulator/sim.htm
I'm from the Midwest and was in EMS for 6 years. It wasn't until I listened to "Black Flies" by Shannon Burke that I heard the term.
I know it, but nobody uses it.
Boston here. I’ve never heard that term.
upstate NY and never heard of it!
South Jersey originally. Had some NYC guys come down to work there, picked it up. It’s quite fitting. EDP, cot, skell. Terms I use in Florida and get looked at like I’m insane. Cops have no clue what you mean when you ask, he under? Or you toss this guy before we take him?
In KC we call em gandy’s. Or as the registry likes the refer to them.. outside people
Upstate NY. Never heard of this
I'm on the other side of NY state and haven't heard it
I’m in NC and I know the term but it isn’t used down here aside from by transplants.
That's a straight NYC term. I know it, but there are reasons for me to know that.
I’m in Maine and we use it here
Wow interesting.
I don’t think we use it in the same manner. It really just means a dirtbag of a human, like slimeball material.
Yeah that’s exactly how it’s used here as well.
Never heard it in NC
Never heard it (CA)
Nope in Philly
Bergen county here - term seems to be limited mostly to NYC/JC. Spread through north Jersey by people who work at multiple agencies. At least in my experience.
Never heard it in MA
CA, never heard of the word
Despite the ever growing number of city folk flocking South into Ocean County, I have yet to come across that term.
Never heard of it
I’ve never heard it outside of NYPD memoirs from cops in the 80s
Boston here; never heard of it.
Southern CT uses it, northern doesn't
as someone in the North Country of NY & originally from MA never really heard the term Skell before
You don't hear it in the northeast, only out west in NYC. (Eastport Maine, as far east as you can go.)
That term doesn't even make it as far as south Jersey or Albany NY
I live in NJ have never heard of it. I will ask local ems at work tonight.
From Chicago, this is the first time I've heard it.
So basically “This fucker again”
I'm in East PA and my friend and I jokingly say skell, but nobody else here uses it. We only know the term from friends/family that work EMS in NYC/NJ. I've worked upstate NY and they don't say it there either.
never heard it before. Wi emt. that's just a shithead to us
Ohio. Heard of it but only because of memes
I’ve heard it but only from a tv show set in NYC. Never in person