skip

Meaning

1. To move by hopping on alternate feet.
2. To leap about lightly.
3. To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
4. To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
5. To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
6. (informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
7. (informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
8. To leap lightly over.
9. To jump rope.
10. 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)
11. To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
12. To have insufficient ink transfer.

jump

skip over

jump over

beat a hasty retreat

bound off

hop-skip

refrain from

leave a space

line skipping

pass along

fly up

grab bucket

dust box

bob about

skimp over

tilting skip

lift van

drop bucket

swinging hopper

hoist bucket

skip elevator

charging ladle

give a miss

blank command

climb over

dummy instruction

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɪp/

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.

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