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skip

/skɪp/

noun

Meaning

  • A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

  • The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

  • 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.

  • Skywave propagation

verb

Meaning

  • To move by hopping on alternate feet.

    "She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."

  • To leap about lightly.

  • 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).

    "I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it."

  • To place an item in a skip.

  • 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."

  • To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

    "a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill"

  • To leap lightly over.

    "to skip the rope"

  • To jump rope.

    "The girls were skipping in the playground."

  • (crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.

Synonyms

play hookie