skip

Meanings

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, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
• To leap lightly over.
• To jump rope.
• To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
• To have insufficient ink transfer.

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 person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
• skywave propagation
• A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. .
• 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 used in cotton factories.
• A charge of syrup in the pans.
• A beehive.
• Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
• (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• play hookie
• dumpster

Origin

• From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, *skupaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną. Related to Icelandic skopa ("to take a run"), Middle Swedish skuppa ("to skip").
• From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa.
• Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper, earlier "seaman", from schip.
• A reference to the television series Skippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).
• 17th-century Ireland. Possibly a . Used at Trinity College Dublin.