skip

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Willow and her mother hold hands as they skip through the yard.

noun

Skip means a leap, jump or hop, or is slang for the captain of a boat, curling team or lawn bowling team.
1. An example of a skip is a movement on a hopscotch board.
2. An example of a skip is a ship's captain.

verb

Skip is defined as to leap or jump, or move the attention from one point to another point.
1. An example of skip is to lightly hop down the street.
2. An example of skip is to pass over a few pages of a book and to miss certain sections.

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skip

intransitive verb

skipped, skip′ping

to leap, jump, or spring lightly; specif., to move along by hopping lightly on first one foot and then the other
to be deflected from a surface; ricochet
to pass, or direct the attention, from one point to another, omitting what lies between
to fail to play back a portion of the recording, esp. as a result of the tonearm striking a surface imperfection: said of a phonograph record
to be promoted in school beyond the next regular grade
Informal to leave hurriedly, esp. under questionable circumstances; abscond

Origin of skip

Middle English skippen, probably from Scandinavian form akin to Old Norse skopa, to jump, run from Indo-European an unverified form skeub-, to shoot, throw from source shove

to jump or leap lightly over
to pass over or omit, either deliberately or inadvertently
to omit attending a session or sessions of (school, church, etc.)
to cause to skip or ricochet
1. to promote (a student) to the grade beyond the next regular one in school
2. to pass over (the next regular grade)
Informal to leave (a town, country, etc.) hurriedly

1. an act of skipping; leap; spring
2. a skipping gait alternating light hops on each foot
a passing over or omitting

skip Idioms

skip it!

Informal never mind! it doesn't matter!

Informal skipper
the captain of a lawn bowling team or curling team

transitive verb

skipped, skip′ping

to act as captain for (a bowling or curling team)

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skip

verb

skipped, skip·ping, skips

verb

intransitive

a. To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.
b. To leap lightly about.
To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet: threw the stone so it skipped over the water.
To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes: skipped through the list hurriedly; skipping over the dull passages in the novel.
To be promoted in school beyond the next regular class or grade.
Informal To leave hastily; abscond: skipped out of town.
To misfire. Used of an engine.

verb

transitive

To leap or jump lightly over: skip rope.
a. To pass over without mentioning; omit: skipped the minor details of the story.
b. To miss or omit as one in a series: My heart skipped a beat.
To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim.
To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level).
Informal To leave hastily: The fugitive skipped town.
Informal To fail to attend: We skipped science class again.

noun

A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.
An act of passing over something; an omission.
A control mechanism on an audio or video player that interrupts the playing of a recording and advances or reverses to the beginning of the nearest chapter, track, or other division.

Origin of skip

Middle English skippen perhaps of Scandinavian origin

Related Forms:

skip′pa·ble
adjective

noun

Chiefly British

A container for receiving, transporting, and dumping waste materials.

Origin of skip

Variant of skep ( in its earlier meaning, basket )

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Verb

(third-person singular simple present skips, present participle skipping, simple past and past participle skipped)

(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
(intransitive) To leap about lightly.
(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
The rock will skip across the pond.
To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
My heart will skip a beat.
I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
To place an item in a skip.
(informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
(informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
To leap lightly over.
to skip the rope
To jump rope.
The girls were skipping in the playground.

Noun

(plural skips)

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

Noun

(plural skips)

(Australia, New Zealand, UK) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.
(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
A beehive.

Noun

(plural skips)

Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

Noun

(plural skips)

(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

Anagrams

kips

Origin

A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them.

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skip - Computer Definition

Skywave propagation of radio signals. See also skywave.

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