Skite-the-gutter

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An unimportant or irresponsible person; a good-for-nothing. Ulster

    "They pulled into the Houlihans’ driveway at three o’clock. Larry, the younger of the two, the one who had turned skite-the-gutter in the hunger strike, opened the door. O’Gorman threw him inside with a shove that sent him flying down the hall on his back."

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"They pulled into the Houlihans’ driveway at three o’clock. Larry, the younger of the two, the one who had turned skite-the-gutter in the hunger strike, opened the door. O’Gorman threw him inside with a shove that sent him flying down the hall on his back."

Etymology

Compare skite (“to defecate”).

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