Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Skookum is a
Chinook Jargon word that has come into occasional use in the
Pacific Northwest.[SUP]
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The word skookum has three main meanings: in regional English) an adjective with a variety of positive connotation.
“It was the common ones you see that look pretty skookum with the heavy plastic around the cable.”
So he was saying it looked pretty strong, that being the positive attribute for a lock/chain/cable. That is how I understood it.