skip

Plural: skips

Noun

• a gait in which steps and hops alternate
• a mistake resulting from neglect
• 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.
• The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
• 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.
• 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
• A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
• A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
• A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
• A skip car.
• A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
• A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
• A charge of syrup in the pans.
• A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
• A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
• A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
• The captain of a sports team.
• The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
• 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.
• The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
• An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
• A college servant.
• A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.

Verb

Verb Forms: skipped, skipping, skips

• To move with light springing steps; to omit.
• bypass
  • "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
• intentionally fail to attend
• jump lightly
• leave suddenly
  • "skip town"
• bound off one point after another
• cause to skip over a surface
  • "Skip a stone across the pond"
• To move by hopping on alternate feet.
• To leap about lightly.
• To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
• To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
• To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
• Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
• 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)
• To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
• To have insufficient ink transfer.
• To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

Examples

• a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill
• He decided to skip the obvious play, hoping for a better word next turn.
• He skipped the second question and moved on.
• I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
• I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
• My heart will skip a beat.
• My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.
• She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
• The girls were skipping in the playground.
• The rock will skip across the pond.
• to skip the country
• to skip the rope
• Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

Synonyms

bound off, cut, decamp, hop, hop-skip, jump, omission, pass over, skim, skip over, skitter, vamoose, dumpster, grandboss, play hooky, skep

Antonyms

stack

Related Words

gyp, limey, scout, wog