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▸ 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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