skip

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
6. (informal, transitive) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
7. (informal, transitive) 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.

Noun

1. A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
4. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
5. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
6. skywave propagation
7. (informal) A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.

Noun

1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) 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.
2. A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
3. A skip car.
4. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
5. A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
6. A charge of syrup in the pans.
7. A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.

Noun

1. A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
2. (sometimes, term-of-address) A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
3. The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
4. 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.
5. (informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

Noun

An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

Noun

A college servant.

Noun

A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.

Opposite of

stack

Synonyms

jump

hop

leap

spring

bound

omit

leave out

bounce

miss

dance

💃

pass over

caper

vault

skip over

gambol

jump over

frolic

frisk

overlook

omission

step over

cavort

skitter

prance

romp

overleap

bound off

beat a hasty retreat

hop-skip

refrain from

leave a space

disregard

browse

skim

decamp

run off

saltation

cut out

flee

cut

vamoose

evade

escape

climb over

elide

dumpster

blank command

dummy instruction

dry

jig

Translations

saltare

saltellare

hüpfen

springen

sauter

saltar

Sprung

saltarse

sautiller

omettre

brincar

πηδώ

überspringen

omettere

huppelen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/skɪp/

Etymology

Cognate with Icelandic: skopa

Cognate with Swedish: skopa

Inherited from Middle English: skep

Inherited from Old English: sceppe

Inherited from Middle English: skipper

In summary

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.

Sentences

Why can't I skip this damn intro ?