skip

verb

/skɪp/

Etymology

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”). Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

derived from *ksewbʰ-✻
derived from *skupjaną✻
derived from skippen

Definitions

1
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
- She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
2
To leap about lightly.
- The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
- So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
3
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
- The rock will skip across the pond.
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1. 4
  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.
2. 5
  To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
  - My heart will skip a beat.
  - He skipped the second question and moved on.
  - I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
3. 6
  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.
4. 7
  To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
  - to skip the country
  - a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill
  - I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast She really want to skip town Get back off me, beast off me Get back you flea-infested mongrel
5. 8
  To leap lightly over.
  - to skip the rope
6. 9
  To jump rope.
  - The girls were skipping in the playground.
7. To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove,…
  To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continuously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
8. To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
9. To have insufficient ink transfer.
10. A leaping or jumping movement
  A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
11. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another
  The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
12. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
13. 16
  A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
  - Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
14. skywave propagation
15. A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
16. A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it…
  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.
17. 20
  A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
  - Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.
18. A skip car.
19. 22
  A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
  - In a panic he pushed the prostesting Catweazle inside an empty clothes skip and sat down on the lid just as his father and Sam came in.
20. A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
21. A charge of syrup in the pans.
22. A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
23. To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
24. A skipper
  A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
25. The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
26. The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last…
  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.
27. The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
28. An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
29. 32
  A college servant.
  - His wounded tutor, his many duns, the skip and bed-maker who waited upon him, the undergraduates of his own time and the years below him, whom he had patronised or scorned—how could he bear to look any of them in the face now?
30. 33
  A skip-level manager
  A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
  - My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.
31. A male given name from Old Norse.

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Derived

frameskip, glip, hit-skip, nonskipping, no-skip, outskip, overskip, skip a beat, skipable, skipathon, skip bleach, skip bomber, skip bombing, skip-care, skip-gram, skip-level, skip list, skip out, skippable, skippingly, skipping rope, skip printing, skip rope, skip school, skip-stop, skip the line, skip town, skiptrace, skip tracer, skip tracing, skipworthy, timeskip, unskip, unskipped, vice-skip, mini skip, skipful, skip hoist, skipless, skipload · +3 more

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for skip. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA