Skip - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
verb
- jump lightly (syn: hop)
- leave suddenly (syn: decamp, vamoose)
- cause to skip over a surface (syn: skim, skitter)
Extra examples
I saw her skipping down the path.
Let's skip to the last item on the agenda.
She skipped lunch in order to go shopping.
Williams skipped the game to be with his wife in the hospital.
He skipped chemistry class three times last month.
I decided to skip the first chapter.
I suggest we skip over the details and get to the point.
It's difficult to have a conversation with her because she skips from one topic to another.
He turned and skipped away, singing happily to himself.
The ball skipped off Bonds' glove and bounced toward the fence.
I skipped through the first part of the book, eager to get to the exciting bits.
He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible
I'll skip dessert; I'm slimming.
...you can skip over the rhetorical passages and still get the gist of the essay...
Bundle up the newspapers and take them to the skip.
Word forms
I/you/we/they: skip
he/she/it: skips
present participle: skipping
past tense: skipped
past participle: skipped
singular: skip
plural: skips
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