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.
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A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. ▸ A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
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.
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. 2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond, page 19:
skywave propagation
(informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
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vice-skip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip bomber (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skippable (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · outskip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip-level (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip out (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skipathon (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip school (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · unskip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip-gram (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · unskipped (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip list (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · nonskipping (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · no-skip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skipworthy (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip-care (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip-stop (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip town (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · overskip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip tracing (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip tracer (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip the line (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip a beat (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skippingly (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · hit-skip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip rope (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skipping rope (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip bombing (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skiptrace (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip day (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip bleach (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skipable (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · timeskip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · glip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · frameskip (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1) · skip printing (from all parts of speech in Etymology 1)
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de Hüpfer (leaping, jumping or skipping movement) · de Sprung (leaping, jumping or skipping movement) · bg подскок (leaping, jumping or skipping movement) · fi hyppely (leaping, jumping or skipping movement) · gd leum (leaping, jumping or skipping movement) · de Tänzeln (leaping, jumping or skipping movement) · de Hopser (leaping, jumping or skipping movement) · bg скок (leaping, jumping or skipping movement)
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.
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(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
(intransitive) To leap about lightly.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
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. 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:
So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
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. 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
The rock will skip across the pond.
(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.
(transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
He skipped the second question and moved on.
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
My heart will skip a beat.
I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
(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.
(informal, transitive) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
to skip the country
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 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?:
a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill
To leap lightly over.
to skip the rope
To jump rope.
The girls were skipping in the playground.
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)
(qualifier:crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
fi heittää pois (place an item in a skip) · bg избягвам (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · es saltar (move by hopping on alternate feet) · la sallito (move by hopping on alternate feet) · da pjække (transitive: to not to attend) · da overspringe (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · de hüpfen (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · ru пропусти́ть (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · ru смы́ться (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · de springen (leap about lightly) · bg пропускам (transitive: to not to attend) · sv skutta (move by hopping on alternate feet) · fi jättää väliin (transitive: to not to attend) · hy ոստոստել (move by hopping on alternate feet) · ru ускользну́ть (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · hu meglóg (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · de rüberhüpfen (leap lightly over) · ru улизну́ть (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · ang hoppian (move by hopping on alternate feet) · hu pattogtat (throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface) · hu szökdel (move by hopping on alternate feet) · ru пропусти́ть (transitive: to not to attend) · de verpassen (transitive: to not to attend) · hu kacsázik (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · it tralasciare (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · nb droppe (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · de sich entziehen (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · hu kacsáztat (throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface) · de drüberhüpfen (leap lightly over) · fi kimmota (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · fi sivuuttaa (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fr sautiller (move by hopping on alternate feet) · de rüberspringen (leap lightly over) · fi livistää (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · hu pattog (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · de auslassen (transitive: to not to attend) · cs vynechat (transitive: to not to attend) · gd leum (leap about lightly) · bg отскачам (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · fi pompahtaa (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · de überschlagen (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · pt faltar (transitive: to not to attend) · mi piu (move by hopping on alternate feet) · de abhauen (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · ga léim (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fi hypellä (leap about lightly) · kix tùa (transitive: to not to attend) · da springe over (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · nn utelate (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fi kimpoilla (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · nb utelate (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · es saltar (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · es saltear (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · cs vypustit (transitive: to not to attend) · fi pompata (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · tr atlamak (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · hu kihagy (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · ota سكمك (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · eo salti (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · de stageln (transitive: to not to attend) · de herumspringen (leap about lightly) · uk упустити (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · gd leum (move by hopping on alternate feet) · gl saltar (move by hopping on alternate feet) · hu szökdécsel (move by hopping on alternate feet) · de hüpfen (leap about lightly) · hu átugrik (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · is valhoppa (move by hopping on alternate feet) · nb droppe (transitive: to not to attend) · es saltarse (transitive: to not to attend) · it saltellare (move by hopping on alternate feet) · ota سكمك (leap about lightly) · hu szökell (move by hopping on alternate feet) · tr es geçmek (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · nn droppe (transitive: to not to attend) · kix tùa (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · hu lóg (transitive: to not to attend) · pt pular (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · hu ellóg (transitive: to not to attend) · bg прескачам (leap lightly over) · ru прогуля́ть (transitive: to not to attend) · sv skippa (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fi pompahdella (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · nl overslaan (transitive: to not to attend) · ru прогу́ливать (transitive: to not to attend) · ru пропуска́ть (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · cs poskakovat (move by hopping on alternate feet) · nb hoppe over (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · cmn 跳 (move by hopping on alternate feet) · tr geçmek (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · tr sekmek (move by hopping on alternate feet) · cs přeskočit (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · cs hopsat (leap about lightly) · de sich etwas schenken (transitive: to not to attend) · it saltare (transitive: to not to attend) · nb skulke (transitive: to not to attend) · uk упускати (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · ru пропуска́ть (transitive: to not to attend) · bg пропускам (knitting, crocheting: pass by a stitch as if it were not there) · de herumhüpfen (leap about lightly) · de hüpfen (move by hopping on alternate feet) · mi tīpoka (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fr manquer (transitive: to not to attend) · de drüberspringen (leap lightly over) · la salito (move by hopping on alternate feet) · ru перескакивать (move by hopping on alternate feet) · ru перескочи́ть (leap lightly over) · cs hopsat (leap about lightly) · nn droppe (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · es saltear (transitive: to not to attend) · uk пропускати (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fi olla poissa (transitive: to not to attend) · bg подска́чам (move by hopping on alternate feet) · de spritzen (transitive: to not to attend) · fi ponnahdella (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · it saltare (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · nl overslaan (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · ga caill (transitive: to not to attend) · sv hoppa över (transitive: to not to attend) · nn hoppe over (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · hu kihagy (transitive: to not to attend) · cs vynechat (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fr sauter (transitive: to not to attend) · fi jättää väliin (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · fi hypellä (leap lightly over) · zh 彈 /弹 (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · de sausen lassen (transitive: to not to attend) · ja 飛ばす (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · it balzare (move by hopping on alternate feet) · hu ugrándozik (move by hopping on alternate feet) · sv kasta macka (throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface) · ja はね回る (move by hopping on alternate feet) · pt saltitar (move by hopping on alternate feet) · sv skippa (transitive: to not to attend) · is sleppa (transitive: to not to attend) · fi häipyä (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · de tänzeln (leap about lightly) · ga gan bacadh le (transitive: to not to attend) · nn skulke (transitive: to not to attend) · he הבריז (transitive: to not to attend) · tr kaçmak (transitive: to not to attend) · ga cuir a scinneadh (throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface) · fi hypähdellä (leap about lightly) · el χοροπηδώ (move by hopping on alternate feet) · cs zasklít (transitive: to not to attend) · fi ponnahtaa (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · mi piupiu (move by hopping on alternate feet) · fi hyppiä (leap about lightly) · de schwänzen (transitive: to not to attend) · fi hypätä yli (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · de sich davonmachen (leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner) · ang oferhlēapan (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · de springen (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · fr sauter (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · de überspringen (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · es soslayar (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · uk пропустити (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · gd leum (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface) · de flippen (throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface) · de blaumachen (transitive: to not to attend) · sv hoppa över (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · nl huppelen (move by hopping on alternate feet) · sv hoppa (move by hopping on alternate feet) · hu pattint (throw something, making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface) · tr okul kırmak (transitive: to not to attend) · bg пропускам (omit or disregard intermediate items or stages) · pt matar (transitive: to not to attend) · sco spirl (leap about lightly) · ota سكمك (move by hopping on alternate feet) · ga scinn (skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface)
From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).
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(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.
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. 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
A skip car.
(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. 1970, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 127:
A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
(qualifier:sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
sh kontejner za otpad (open-topped rubbish bin) · fr benne (open-topped rubbish bin) · nrf bîngue (open-topped rubbish bin) · gl colector do lixo (open-topped rubbish bin) · de Fördergefäß (mining: transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock) · de Schuttmulde (open-topped rubbish bin) · hu óriáskonténer (mining: transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock) · gl contedor (open-topped rubbish bin) · de Schuttcontainer (open-topped rubbish bin) · it cassone (open-topped rubbish bin) · mi taiaroa para (open-topped rubbish bin) · hu billenőkocsi (open-topped rubbish bin) · pt caçamba de entulho (open-topped rubbish bin) · mi taiaroa (open-topped rubbish bin) · de Absetzmulde (open-topped rubbish bin) · hu kas (UK, Scotland, dialect: a skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket) · pt caçamba (open-topped rubbish bin) · sv container (open-topped rubbish bin) · fi roskalava (open-topped rubbish bin) · sh baja (open-topped rubbish bin) · hu szállítókas (UK, Scotland, dialect: a skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket) · de Container (open-topped rubbish bin) · pl kosz na śmieci (open-topped rubbish bin) · hu szkip (UK, Scotland, dialect: a skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket) · de Müllcontainer (open-topped rubbish bin) · de Mulde (open-topped rubbish bin) · fi jätelava (open-topped rubbish bin) · sv skip (mining: transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock)
From Middle English skep, skeppe, from Old English sceppe, from Old Norse skeppa, skjappa (“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps from Middle Low German scheppe (“a unit of weight”), perhaps related to Middle Low German schēpel (“buschel, measurement for grain”), German Scheffel (“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to *skap (“shape”).
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(transitive) To place (an item) in a skip (large container for waste).
Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).
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(abbreviation, alt-of, informal) Short for skipper, especially as (nautical) the master of a ship; (sports) a team captain; (UK, law enforcement) a detective sergeant; or any other person with similar moderate authority.
The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
(qualifier:bowls) 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.
(informal, qualifier:scouting) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
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fi kippari (curling: player who calls the shots) · fi kapteeni (curling: player who calls the shots) · sv skipper (curling: player who calls the shots) · sv skip (curling: player who calls the shots)
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).
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(Australia, 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.
17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.
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(historical, qualifier:Trinity College; Dublin; Trinity College; Dublin) A college servant.
He constitutes, probably, the identical exception which Sir Boyle Roche had in his mind's eye, when he broached his famous problem, that "a man cannot be in two places at once, barring he is a bird." The skip, or according to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at several places. He must be at Kinshan's on Carlisle Bridge, for Mr. Moriarty's half-pound of tea, at the very moment that Sir Looby, in the Botany Bay Square, requires his three eggs; and the Billy Sheridan of the day is singing out, like Stentor, from the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice beside the library, for the "lazy rascal!" 1842 October, Billy Sheridan, “Reminiscences of College Life”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 682:
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 […] 1703, Edward Ward, The London-spy Compleat, 5th edition, volume 1, part 7, published 1713, page 157:
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? 1849, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Flight after Defeat”, in The History of Pendennis: