Definition of "skip"
- verb
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).
To place an item in a skip.
Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
To jump rope.
- noun
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 large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents.
A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
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