Definition of skips Skips
/skɪˈps/ - [skips] -
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Wiktionary 
- skips (Noun)
Plural of skip.
Part of speech
🔤WordNet
NounPlural: skips |
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| skip - a gait in which steps and hops alternate | ||
| gait a person's manner of walking | ||
| skip - a mistake resulting from neglect | ||
| omission | ||
| mistake, error, fault a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" | ||
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| skip - bound off one point after another | ||
| bound off | ||
| ricochet, take a hop, rebound, bound, recoil, resile, spring, reverberate, bounce form the boundary of; be contiguous to | ||
| skip - jump lightly | ||
| hop, hop-skip | ||
| bound, leap, spring, jump form the boundary of; be contiguous to | ||
| skip over, pass over, skip, jump fly over; "The plane passed over Damascus" | ||
| bestride, climb on, hop on, jump on, mount up, get on, mount get up on the back of; "mount a horse" | ||
| skip - intentionally fail to attend; "cut class" | ||
| cut | ||
| miss fail to experience; "Fortunately, I missed the hurricane" | ||
| bunk off, play hooky play truant from work or school; "The boy often plays hooky" | ||
| skip - leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town" | ||
| decamp, vamoose | ||
| go forth, go away, leave leave unchanged or undisturbed or refrain from taking; "leave it as is"; "leave the young fawn alone"; "leave the flowers that you see in the park behind" | ||
| colloquialism a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | ||
| skip - bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" | ||
| jump, pass over, skip over | ||
| leave out, omit, pretermit, overleap, neglect, overlook, miss, drop disregard intentionally or let pass | ||
| skip - cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond" | ||
| skim, skitter | ||
| throw throw (a die) out onto a flat surface; "Throw a six" | ||
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Wiktionary
- skip (Noun)
A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. - skip (Noun)
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. - skip (Noun)
A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. - skip (Noun)
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. - skip (Noun)
A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock. - skip (Noun)
Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority. - skip (Noun)
The player who call the calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks. - skip (Noun)
An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent. - skip (Verb)
To move by hopping on alternate feet. - skip (Verb)
To leap about lightly. - skip (Verb)
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. - skip (Verb)
To throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. - skip (Verb)
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation some item or stage. - skip (Verb)
To place an item in a skip. - skip (Verb)
Not to attend some event, especially a class or a meeting. - skip (Verb)
To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country. - skip (Verb)
To jump rope .
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- skip (n.)
A basket. See Skep. - skip (n.)
A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories. - skip (n.)
An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock. - skip (n.)
A charge of sirup in the pans. - skip (n.)
A beehive; a skep. - skip (v. i.)
To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit. - skip (v. i.)
Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over. - skip (v. t.)
To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope. - skip (v. t.)
To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson. - skip (v. t.)
To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone. - skip (n.)
A light leap or bound. - skip (n.)
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. - skip (n.)
A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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skip
To not go to class without permission.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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skip
skip, v.i. to leap: to bound lightly and joyfully: to pass over.—v.t. to leap over: to omit:—pr.p. skip′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. skipped.—n. a light leap: a bound: the omission of a part: the captain of a side at bowls and curling: a college servant.—ns. Skip′jack, an impudent fellow: the blue-fish, saurel, &c.; Skip′-ken′nel, one who has to jump the gutters, a lackey; Skip′per, one who skips: a dancer: (Shak.) a young thoughtless person: a hesperian butterfly.—adj. Skip′ping, flighty, giddy.—adv. Skip′pingly, in a skipping manner: by skips or leaps.—n. Skip′ping-rope, a rope used in skipping. [Either Celt., according to Skeat, from Ir. sgiob, to snatch, Gael. sgiab, to move suddenly, W. ysgipio, to snatch away; or Teut., conn. with Ice. skopa, to run.] -
skip
skip, n. an iron box for raising ore running between guides, or in inclined shafts fitted with wheels to run on a track, a mine-truck
