Wiktionary
n. A street game in which players attempt to flick caps into a series of squares drawn on the ground.
Wikipedia
Skully may refer to:
- Skully (game), a street game
- Skully (helmet), a type of motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display
- Beanie (seamed cap), a type of hat
- Skully, an Orc that is second in command to Gothmog, that appears in The Lord of the Rings films, but not in the book
- Noel Simms, a reggae drummer
- John Skully
Skully (also called skelly, skellies, skelsy, skellzies, scully, loadies, scummy top, tops or caps but widely known as Scummy) is a children's game played on the streets of New York City and other urban areas. Sketched on the street usually in chalk, a skully or skelly board allows a game for two to six players. A sidewalk is sometimes used, offering greater protection from vehicular traffic; however, the asphalt on a typical city street is smoother and provides better game play than a bumpy concrete sidewalk.
Game time varies, but a match of two to three players is usually completed in 20 minutes. Local variations in rules are common and make it difficult to document the game. Rule variations are agreed upon by players before starting a game, especially when players from different neighborhoods play against each other.
Skully was a brand of motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display and a rear-facing camera. The helmet's software was based on the Android platform, and can be controlled with voice commands. Users can see rearward through the heads-up display and the rear camera. The helmet also includes Bluetooth functionality, allowing music streaming from smartphones. Similar helmet designs have been proposed in the past including one by LiveMap
The helmet was invented by Marcus Weller who also served as the company CEO. As of July 12, 2016 Marcus Weller was removed as CEO and replaced by Martin Fitcher. Fichter was an executive at mobile device company HTC's American subsidiary in Bellevue, Washington.
As of August, 2014, the manufacturer was taking preorders for the helmet. The company also had the fastest fully funded Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to-date, raising $1.1 million. However, there were significant production delays with the helmet including company insider accounts estimating no more than 20 to 100 shipped units as of July 12, 2016.
Skully shut down in July 2016 and was expected to declare bankruptcy shortly afterward. Despite having raised $2.5 million through the Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, and an additional $11 million in venture capital from Intel and others, the company was unable to secure additional funding. Former executive assistant, Isabelle Faithhauer, is suing Skully and the founders, Marcus and Mitch Weller, for fraudulently using corporate funds for personal use. Marcus Weller denied the claims of the lawsuit.
Usage examples of "skully".
Potential skully caps were collected, the need for wax discussed, but skully was never played.
In fact when it was actually played he lost the game more often than he won but skully was an art that involved the conveyance of a body of knowledge, like the methods of a guild, and by his second summer on the block Dylan had mastered all its peripheral notions and was widely recognized for this mastery.
Dylan one day designed a star-shaped skully board, where players would be expected to shoot their caps from triangular corners into center stage, as in Chinese checkers, a game which Dylan had been taught in his kindergarten class.
Like a tiny factory Dylan made rows of perfect skully caps and lined them up along the stoop: vanilla Yoo-Hoo with pink wax, Coke with green, Coco Rico, the cork of the cap still stinking of sugar, with white.
Perhaps the Dean Street kids had never really been able to keep their attention on skully but only on the attendant crafts, on puzzling out the tradition.
He wanted to scratch a skully board on his wall, wanted to live in the abandoned house.
The overlapping storylines were a field of expertise, skully again, all fine print and ritual.
Tags and their invisible authors were the next skully or Marvel superheroes, the hidden lore.
Dean Street, the block which had become so useless now, no skully, no ball games, any kid you could think of off in some cluster or gang, like survivalist cells.
One day Dylan saw one scratching some primitive botched skully board, not on a slate but on a pebbly square of poured concrete, hopeless, like a fallout survivor dim with radiation sickness sketching a blueprint for reinvention of the wheel.
Toby was topped by a black skully, and both wore their jeans low and had drawstring-style bags on their backs.
A cheap, mean-looking terrace of houses, flush with the pavement, each with two windows upstairs and a large one in the middle downstairs, with a slit on one side of it called a door--looking remarkably skully in ghastly dawns, afterglows, and rainy afternoons and evenings.
Potter wore a skully and shades so that the booth camera could record very little of his face.
It was a head shot of a scowling Oliver wearing a skully and chains, his arms crossed across his chest, a Glock in one hand and a .
For something no less hot but with a darker edge, try a JB Skully novel.