down-and-out vs skell

down-and-out

noun
  • A down-and-outer. 

skell

verb
  • To fall off or fall over. 

noun
  • A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler. 

  • a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway. 

How often have the words down-and-out and skell occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )