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My daughter said she was "sketched out" because something. I haven't heard that term used before. Have you?
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No. But then the language of one generation is commonly incomprehensible to the older generation.
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Well, it has 1,480,000 Google hits, so it's apparently used a lot. I haven't seen "sketchy" used as a verb. My daughter says it means, "uncomfortable about a situation, with a dangerous connotation." When we look it up online, it also seems to be related to being under the influence of drugs.
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I've seen "stretched out" and "strung out" used with a similar meaning, but not "sketch".
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Many of those hits may be in the British usage meaning "outlined" or "explained in vague terms". For example, "Here's the way he sketched out the plan to me." This is a very common usage here. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. Read all about my travels around the world here. Read even more of my travel writing and poems on my weblog. My new blog - which I hope to keep more up to date than my old one. And don't miss this - my unpublished book, now complete and unabridged My new photoblog The World Through A lens |
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FWIW, Urban Dictionary has a couple of entries that seem to overlap in meaning (link). I've never heard it used, except in Bob's sense, and that over here by non-Britons. —Ceci n'est pas un seing. |
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I've heard it used in the sense of describing a plan, "sketched out the plan," but not in the other sense of strung out on drugs.
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