Usually means: Avoid responsibilities, often by deception.
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  1. skive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. skive: Merriam-Webster
  3. skive, skive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. skive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. skive: Collins English Dictionary
  6. skive: Vocabulary.com
  7. Skive, skive: Wordnik
  8. skive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. skive: Wiktionary
  10. skive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skive: Dictionary.com
  13. Skive (Denmark), Skive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Skive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. skive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. skive: Rhymezone
  17. Skive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. skive: FreeDictionary.org
  19. skive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. skive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Skive: The Word Detective
  22. skive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Skive: World Wide Words

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  1. Skive: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skive, skive: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skive: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
noun:  (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
noun:  A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
noun:  An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.
verb:  To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.

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