sky pilot

plural sky pilots

1. slangA clergyman, especially a military chaplain or padre.

   "But we've got the laugh on our sky-pilot, for he's as puzzled as the rest of us."

   1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

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   And one or two sky pilots having an eye around that there was no goings on with the females, hitting below the belt.

   1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 298

   Jack, I swear, I'm no sky-pilot, but a creep pad turns into a confession booth as soon as I squat in it – the chicks really run their mouths some spieling their life histories in my face.

   1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 88

   Synonyms: Holy Joe

2. A polemonium, especially Polemonium eximium.