What does sketchy people mean?

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A sketchy person is that guy smoking cigarettes on your street corner after dark

...or that woman wearing a bulging trench coat, waiting outside a gas station

you get the idea. It's a word a lot of prep school kids use.

It means creepy, or seedy, dirty, low-quality, etc.

Example: That Chicago neighborhood is really sketchy, just look at all the crackheads and drunkards running around on the streets.

It can also mean uncertain or mysterious, as in a "sketchy person."

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sketchy has two main meanings in contemporary English in the UK. Both are quite informal. The older meaning, which several answers have noted, is derived from a sketch, which is a quick, rough drawing, not a finished piece of art or an accurate design drawing. From that origin we get a quick, rough description, a brief outline. 'Can you just sketch out for us your ideas about the new marketing campaign?' you might ask someone in a meeting. The word is still very current in this sense, and it's probably the sense in which most people over about 30 would use it. The newer meaning (I'd guess it's become current within the last five years) is of something 'questionable' or 'dodgy' or even 'unsafe'. I would say this is the sense in which most people under 30 would usually be using it. For example, last night I was talking with my son about a cycle club he belongs to, at his university. He described one incident when a group of them were cycling at night, most without helmets, most without brakes or lights on their bikes, and suddenly found themselves arriving at a road junction with a very unpredictable road surface. He described it as a sketchy moment ... meaning both that they shouldn't have been out like that without proper safety precautions, and also that there was a real danger of accident when they hit the dodgy surface. I think the second meaning is derived from the first, from the sense of a sketch as something rough, to a desciption that is just a very rough outline and not necessarily very accurate, to a situation which is not really ideal, to a situation that is positively dodgy. But the second sense is now clearly established in its own right, and it should be treated as a completely distinct meaning for the word. It is quite a bit more informal than the first meaning.

Haha, it means that they're suspicious, and you're not quite sure of their motives.

In a sentence: The man standing alone on the dark street corner looks to be pretty sketchy.

A good place to find sketchy people would be a dark alleyway, or behind a store/restaurant. Anywhere you see someone at night, by themselves, in a city or in the middle of nowhere may also be considered sketchy.

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What does sketchy people mean?

What does it mean when someone says the place is a mix of sketchy people?

Well sketchy means risky, weird, etc.

Like if I were on probation and I said I didn't want to hang out with a crowd of sketchy people, it would most likely mean they were on probations too.

So that would probably mean people they probably wouldn't want to be around.

If you walk in they will all break out paper and pencils and sketch a picture of you and demand you pick the best sketch of yourself.When you do all the losers will wad up the sketches and throw them at you and hiss you out of there.

The look like a sketch

people who look like they would do some not so cool things, trashy.....?

random weirdos