Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a woman who trades sex for status or for free drugs; her chosen partners are often drug dealers or performers; thus broadly, a promiscuous woman.

1987		King Tee & Mixmaster Spade ‘Ya Better Bring a Gun’ 🎵 A skeezer comes your way, you say, ‘Let’s take a ride.’.
1988		G. Tate ‘Public Enemy’ in Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 128: Remember The Mack? Where the pimp figures it cool to make crazy dollar off his skeezes.
1993		A. Rodriguez Spidertown (1994) 119: I think they both saw Amelia f’ what she was, some kinda scummy skeez.
1998		(con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 90: Driving down U with Alan Rogers and his new skeezer.
1999		J. Ridley Everybody Smokes in Hell 38: He looked over at the two skeezes on the couch bookending his boss.
2001		G. Pelecanos Right As Rain 228: You talkin’ about that skeeze over in the Yard?
2003		Baltimore Sun (MD) 19 Mar. B8/6: When he called Rice a ‘skeeza’ liberal black leaders [...] knew Baraka was lying.

2. attrib. use of sense 1 in its broadest use.

2004

N. Kelley ‘The Code’ in Brooklyn Noir 176: Amateur bitchez who watched skeezer videos and acted like they could hump.

3. a person, usu. female, who attempts to have a relationship with a member of the opposite sex only for their material possessions, in order to make an impression on other people.

1989		P. Munro Sl. U. 172: skeezer promiscuous woman, slut, ho.
1997		Eble Campus Sl. Apr.

4. a man.

1989

Eble Campus Sl. Mar. 8: skeezer – guy. ‘Last night, we saw this fine skeezer.’.

5. a derog. term for any disliked person.

1987		Eble Campus Sl. Fall 7: skeezer – a no good person: Don’t mess with him – he’s a skeezer.
1992		Eble Campus Sl. Apr.
2004		T. Fey Mean Girls [movie script] Jason, why are you such a skeez?