Usually means: Omits, overlooks, or passes over.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. skips: Merriam-Webster
  2. skips, skips: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skips: Collins English Dictionary
  4. skips: Vocabulary.com
  5. Skip's, Skips, skips: Wordnik
  6. skips: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. skips: Wiktionary
  8. skips: Dictionary.com
  9. skips: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Skips (Regular Show), Skips (snack), Skips: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. skips: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. skips: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skips: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SKIPS: Acronym Finder
  2. skips: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skips: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Skip)

verb:  (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
verb:  (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
verb:  (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
verb:  (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
verb:  (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
verb:  (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
verb:  (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
verb:  To leap lightly over.
verb:  To jump rope.
verb:  To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear. (of a phonograph record)
verb:  (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
verb:  (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
noun:  A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
noun:  The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
noun:  A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
noun:  (radio) skywave propagation
noun:  (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
noun:  (Commonwealth, UK, Ireland) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
noun:  (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
noun:  (steelmaking) A skip car.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
noun:  A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
noun:  (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
noun:  A beehive.
verb:  (transitive) To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
noun:  A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
noun:  (sometimes as a term of address) The captain of a sports team.
noun:  (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
noun:  (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
noun:  (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
noun:  (slang) A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
noun:  A male given name from Old Norse.
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