skull
Definitions
General English
General Science
- noun the bony part of the head in humans and other vertebrates
Medical
- noun the eight bones which are fused or connected together to form the head, along with the fourteen bones which form the face.
Slang
- noun a synonym for ‘head’ in racy speech or hip talk. The word most usually occurs in the phrase out of one’s skull (intoxicated or crazy) or in the following extended specialised sense.
- noun oral sex, especially fellatio. This term, popular among college students since the late 1970s, is either derived from, or an imitation of black street slang; a racier version of head in its sexual context. It is usually used as part of the parodic exhortation ‘whip some skull on me baby!’.
- verb to drink (alcohol)
Origin & History of “skull”
The Old
English word for ‘skull’ was
hēafodpanne, literally ‘head-pan’. It has never been firmly established
where its
middle English replacement
skull came
from, but is seems
more than likely
that it was borrowed from a Scandinavian
language (Swedish and Norwegian
have skalle ‘skull’).
