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    skip
    [skip]
    verb
    skip (verb) · skips (third person present) · skipped (past tense) · skipped (past participle) · skipping (present participle)
    1. move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce:
      "she began to skip down the path"
      • jump over a rope that is held at both ends by oneself or two other people and turned repeatedly over the head and under the feet, as a game or for exercise.
      • NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
        jump over (a rope) as a game or for exercise:
        "the girls had been skipping rope"
      • jump lightly over:
        "the children used to skip the puddles"
      • omit (part of a book that one is reading, or a stage in a sequence that one is following):
        "the video manual allows the viewer to skip sections he's not interested in" · "she disliked him so much that she skipped over any articles that mentioned him"
      • fail to attend or deal with as appropriate; miss:
        "I wanted to skip my English lesson to visit my mother" · "try not to skip breakfast"
      • move quickly and in an unmethodical way from one point or subject to another:
        "Marian skipped halfheartedly through the book"
      • informal
        depart quickly and secretly from:
        "she skipped her home amid rumors of a romance"
      • informal
        run away; disappear:
        "I'm not giving them a chance to skip off again"
      • informal
        (skip it)
        abandon an undertaking, conversation, or activity:
        "after several wrong turns in our journey, we almost decided to skip it"
      • throw (a stone) so that it ricochets off the surface of water.
    noun
    skip (noun) · skips (plural noun)
    1. a light, bouncing step; a skipping movement:
      "he moved with a strange, dancing skip"
      • computing
        an act of passing over part of a sequence of data or instructions.
      • NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
        informal
        a person who is missing, especially one who has defaulted on a debt.
    Origin
    Middle English: probably of Scandinavian origin.
    skip
    [skip]
    noun
    BRITISH ENGLISH
    skip (noun) · skips (plural noun)
    1. a dumpster.
    skip
    [skip]
    noun
    skip (noun) · skips (plural noun)
    1. the captain or director of a team in lawn bowling or curling.
    verb
    skip (verb) · skips (third person present) · skipped (past tense) · skipped (past participle) · skipping (present participle)
    1. act as skip of (a side):
      "they lost to another Stranraer team, skipped by Peter Wilson"
    Origin
    early 19th century (originally Scots): abbreviation of skipper.
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    verb
    1. move along lightly, stepping from one foot to the other with a hop or bounce:
      Opposite:
     
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