Skinner Street. Stands on land belonging to the Skinners’ Company.
Skylarking. Originally an American seaman’s term for rough sport among the ship’s rigging and tops.
Sky Parlor. An Americanism for an attic.
Sky Pilot. An American naval expression for a ship’s chaplain. The allusion is obvious.
Sky-scraper. The name given in the United States to a building of lofty proportions, often running to as many as thirty storeys. Viewing these from Brooklyn Bridge it would really seem as if the New Yorkers were anxious to scour the heavens out of their top windows.
Sky Sign. A structure on the roof of a house of business for the purposes of a bold advertisement. This Transatlantic innovation has within the last few years been interdicted by order of the London County Council.
Slacker. An Eton term for one who never takes part in games; he cannot be coerced, and declines to exert himself in any way.
Slate Club. Originally a parochial thrift society whose members met in the schoolroom, their contributions being pro tem entered on slates, conveniently at hand.
Slick into it. To do a thing right away, never pausing until it is finished. As a variant of “Polish it off” this expression is rightly employed, slick being derived from the German schlicht, polished, clean.
Sling. An American mixed drink, so called on account of the different ingredients slung into it.