Definitions
1.nounA leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
2.nounThe act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3.nounA passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
4.nounA person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
5.nounSkywave propagation
6.verbTo move by hopping on alternate feet."She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."
7.verbTo leap about lightly.
8.verbTo skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface."The rock will skip across the pond."
9.verbTo throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface."I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond."
10.verbTo disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage)."I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it."
11.verbTo place an item in a skip.
12.verbNot to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting)."Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it."
13.verbTo leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner."a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill"
14.verbTo leap lightly over."to skip the rope"
15.verbTo jump rope."The girls were skipping in the playground."
16.verb(crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
17.nounA large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
18.nounA transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
19.nounA skep, or basket.
20.nounA wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
21.noun(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
22.nounA beehive.
23.nounShort for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
24.noun(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
25.nounThe player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
26.noun(bowls) 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.
27.nounThe scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
28.nounAn Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
29.noun(college slang) A college servant.