skip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭp
ipa: /skɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
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Etymology: 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.
Senses: examples: text: She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
glosses: To move by hopping on alternate feet.
examples: text: The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
ref: 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
text: So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: The hosts maintained their discipline and shape, even threatening to grab a second goal on the break - left-back Dan Harding made a scintillating run, skipping past a few challenges before prodding a right-footed shot that did not match his build-up.
ref: 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, in BBC:
glosses: To leap about lightly.
examples: text: The rock will skip across the pond.
text: After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.
ref: 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, in BBC:
glosses: To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
examples: text: I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
glosses: To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
examples: text: My heart will skip a beat.
text: He skipped the second question and moved on.
text: I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.
text: 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
But they who have not this doubt, and have a mind to see the issue of the Theory, may skip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following
glosses: To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
examples: text: Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.
glosses: Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
examples: text: to skip the country
text: a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill
text: I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast
She really want to skip town
Get back off me, beast off me
Get back you flea-infested mongrel
ref: 1998, Baha Men, Who Let the Dogs Out?:
glosses: To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
examples: text: to skip the rope
glosses: To leap lightly over.
examples: text: The girls were skipping in the playground.
glosses: To jump rope.
glosses: 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)
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
qualifier: crochet
glosses: To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
topics: media
printing
publishing
antonyms: stack
glosses: To have insufficient ink transfer.
Synonyms: sense: not to attend
word: play hooky