Usually means: Omit, pass over, jump lightly.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word skip:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. skip: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. skip, skip, skip: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skip: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skip: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skip: Vocabulary.com
  6. Skip, skip: Wordnik
  7. skip: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Skip, skip: Wiktionary
  9. skip: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. skip: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. skip: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skip: Dictionary.com
  13. skip: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. skip: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SKIP (Kanji indexing), Skip (Angel), Skip (audio playback), Skip (company), Skip (container), Skip (curling), Skip (disambiguation), Skip (nickname), Skip: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Skip: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. skip: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. skip: Rhymezone
  19. skip: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. skip: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Skip: Britih-American Dictionary
  22. skip: Free Dictionary
  23. skip: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. skip: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skip: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skip: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SKIP: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. skip: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skip (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. skip, skip, skip, skip: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. skip (the game): Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. skip: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See skippable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
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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