sky pilot

English

sky pilot (plural sky pilots)

(slang) A clergyman, especially a military chaplain or padre.
- 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:
  "But we've got the laugh on our sky-pilot, for he's as puzzled as the rest of us."
- 1946, Mezz Mezzrow; Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues, New York: Random House, page 88:
  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.