sky-pilot

sky pilot

noun Slang.
a member of the clergy, especially a chaplain of the armed forces.

Origin:
1880–85
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Sky-pilot is always a great word to know.
So is ninnyhammer. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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sky-pilot definition


  1. n.
    a chaplain. : The sky-pilot says we can park in the church's lot, if we don't mess anything up or make too much noise.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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