sketched out

[Jonathan Lighter]

Apparently less intense than "freaked out":

2011 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_congresswoman_shot (Jan. 10): He would
send bizarre text messages, but also break off contact for weeks on end. "We
just started getting sketched out about him," the friend said.

In 1996-97 my undergraduates began reporting "sketchy" as meaning fishy,
odd, shady, sinister.  It was new to me then but is quite common now.

JL

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