skip

IPA: skˈɪp

noun

  • A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
  • The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
  • (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
  • (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.
  • (radio) skywave propagation
  • (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
  • (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
  • (steelmaking) A skip car.
  • (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
  • A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
  • (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
  • A beehive.
  • (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
  • (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
  • (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
  • (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
  • (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
  • (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
  • (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
  • A male given name from Old Norse.
  • Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority. [(nautical) The master of a ship.]

verb

  • (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
  • (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
  • (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
  • (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
  • (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
  • (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
  • (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
  • To leap lightly over.
  • To jump rope.
  • To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
  • (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
  • (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
  • To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
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Examples of "skip" in Sentences

  • The rabbit is skipping.
  • He is wont to skip breakfast.
  • The redirects would be in the skip log.
  • Most of the time, I skipped in the past.
  • Skip all the rest of the back and forth.
  • The teacher allowed him to skip the class.
  • The mailman just needs to skip the odd ones.
  • Just give the evidence and skip the speeches.
  • King had skipped the march, fearful of the violence.
  • In the meanwhile, we skip to the inevitable conclusion.

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