skip
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Is skip a Scrabble word?
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Definition
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.Examples: "She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."intransitive
2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.Examples: "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."intransitive
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.Examples: "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."intransitive
4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.Examples: "I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond."transitive
5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).Examples: "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."transitive
6. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).Examples: "Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it."Synonyms: play hookyinformaltransitive
noun (English)
1. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
2. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
3. (radio) skywave propagation
4. (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.informal
noun (English)
1. (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) 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.Synonyms: dumpsterCommonwealthIrelandUK
2. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.Examples: "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."
3. (steelmaking) A skip car.
4. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.ScotlandUKdialectal
5. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).transitive
noun (English)
1. A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.sometimesterm-of-address
2. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
3. (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.
4. (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.informal
noun (English)
1. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.Examples: "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."Australiaslang
Definition source: Wiktionary