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Skip

//skɪp// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A male given name from Old Norse.

Noun

1
A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
2
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. Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
3
A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority. often
4
An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent. Australia, often, slang
"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. Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you."
5
A college servant. historical, often
"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 middle of Covent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn […]"

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6
A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss. often, slang
"My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight."
7
a mistake resulting from neglect wordnet
8
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
9
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."
10
A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.; The captain of a sports team. often
11
a gait in which steps and hops alternate wordnet
12
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.; 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.
13
A skip car.
14
The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks. often
15
A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
16
A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket. Scotland, UK, dialectal
"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."
17
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. often
18
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."
19
A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
20
The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization). informal, often
21
skywave propagation
22
A charge of syrup in the pans.
23
A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to. informal
24
A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.

Verb

1
To move by hopping on alternate feet. intransitive
"She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."
2
To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1). transitive
3
bypass wordnet
4
To leap about lightly. intransitive
"The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?"
5
cause to skip over a surface wordnet

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6
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. intransitive
"The rock will skip across the pond."
7
bound off one point after another wordnet
8
To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. transitive
"I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond."
9
jump lightly wordnet
10
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage). transitive
"My heart will skip a beat."
11
leave suddenly wordnet
12
Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). informal, transitive
"Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it."
13
intentionally fail to attend wordnet
14
To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner. informal, transitive
"to skip the country"
15
To leap lightly over.
"to skip the rope"
16
To jump rope.
"The girls were skipping in the playground."
17
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)
18
To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
19
To have insufficient ink transfer.

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

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”).

Etymology 4

Etymology 5

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

Etymology 6

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).

Etymology 7

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

Etymology 8

Clipping of skip-level manager.

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