skip

verb

1. (intransitive)To move by hopping on alternate feet.

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

2. (intransitive)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.”

   “The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.”

3. (intransitive)To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

   “The rock will skip across the pond.”

   “After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.”

4. (transitive)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.”

5. (transitive)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.”

   “1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following”

6. (informal, transitive)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.”

7. (informal, transitive)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”

8. To leap lightly over.

   “to skip the rope”

9. To jump rope.

   “The girls were skipping in the playground.”

10. 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)
11. To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
12. To have insufficient ink transfer.
13. (transitive)To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

noun

1. A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
4. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
5. 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.”

6. skywave propagation
7. (informal)A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
8. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK)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.
9. 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.”

10. A skip car.
11. (Scotland, UK, dialectal)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.”

12. A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
13. A charge of syrup in the pans.
14. A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.
15. (often)A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
16. (often)A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
17. (often)The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
18. (often)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.
19. (informal, often)The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
20. (Australia, often, slang)An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

    “2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest, Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she? Barber: She is Australian. Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.”

21. (historical, often)A college servant.

    “Behind the Counter stood a complaisant Spark, who I observ'd shew'd as much Breeding in the sale of a Penny-worth of Tobacco, and the change of a Shilling, as a Courtier's Footman when he meets his Brother Skip in the middle of Covent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn […]”

    “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?”

22. (often, slang)A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.

    “My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.”

name

1. A male given name from Old Norse.