skip

A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.

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.

    1. (video games) 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.

  3. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
  4. 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...
  5. skywave propagation
  6. A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.

Origin

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.

Forms

skips

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

Noun Commonwealth, Ireland

  1. 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: dumpster

  2. 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...
  3. A skip car.
  4. 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:
  5. A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
  6. A charge of syrup in the pans.
  7. A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.

    Synonyms: skep

    Hypernyms: beehive hive

Origin

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”).

Forms

skips

Derived

mini skip skipful skip hoist skipless skipload skip lorry skipman skip-raiding

Noun often

  1. A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

    1. The captain of a sports team.

  2. The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
  3. 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. The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).

Origin

Late Middle English skipper, borrowed from Middle Dutch and Middle Low German schipper (“captain”), earlier "seaman", from schip (“ship”).

Forms

skips

Noun Australia, often

  1. 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....

Origin

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).

Forms

skips skippy

Related

limey wog

Noun often, slang

  1. A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
    • My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.

    Synonyms: grandboss

Origin

Clipping of skip-level manager.

Forms

skips

Noun historical, often

  1. 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...

Origin

17th-century Ireland. Possibly a clipping of skip-kennel (“young lackey or assistant”). Used at Trinity College Dublin.

Forms

skips

Related

gyp scout

Verb Entry 7

  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? - 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
    • 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:
    • 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...
  3. 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...
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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 - 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?:
  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.

    Antonyms: stack

Forms

skips skipping skipped no-table-tags glossary skip skippest skippedst skippeth -

Synonyms

play hooky

Verb Entry 8

  1. To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

Forms

skips skipping skipped