Green’s Dictionary of Slang

skee n.¹

(US, then Aus./N.Z.) whisky.

1905		H. Green Actors’ Boarding House (1906) 363: Little ’skee fur you-all?
1920		Ade Hand-made Fables 270: What you need is a little Skee with a dash of Peppermint.
1920		A. Baer Two & Three 2 Feb. [synd. col.] Prohibition has put the blinkers on ski jumping [...] There is no more ski.
1931		A. Hardin ‘Volstead English’ in AS VII:2 87: Terms used for intoxicating liquor: Skee.
1935		Central Qld Herald (Rockhampton, Qld) 10 May 12/3: Roald — ‘A little skee.’ Pin — ‘What?’ Roald — ‘I beg pardon, whiskey’.
1940		R.L. Bellem ‘Death’s Passport’ in Goodstone Pulps (1970) 112/1: He helped himself to a jorum of skee.
1953		D. Cusack Caddie 143: By the way he was tearin’ the skee into him he’ll be four sheets in the wind.
1959		G. Slatter Gun in My Hand 145: In this country a bulged pocket would not mean a gun. More likely a flask of skee or mother’s ruin.
1967		in DARE.
2004		T. Dorsey Cadillac Beach 258: ‘What jumps into your head?’ [...] ‘Chicago overcoats, Harlem sunsets, a jorum of skee, [...].’.

In compounds

skee joint (n.) [joint n. (3b)]

(US) a bar or saloon.

1950

Goldin et al. DAUL 195/2: Skee-joint. A cheap drinking establishment.