• enPR:skĭp,IPA^(key):/skɪp/

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• Rhymes:-ɪp

FromMiddle Englishskippen,skyppen, ofNorth Germanic origin, ultimately fromProto-Germanic*skupjaną, perhaps related to*skeubaną(“to drive, push”), iterative*skuppōną(“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), fromProto-Indo-European*skewbʰ-(“to push, throw, shake”).^[1][2]

Related toIcelandicskopa(“to take a run”),Old Swedishskuppa(“to skip”), modern dialectalSwedishskopa,skimpa(“to skip, leap”), and Englishshove.^[3] See also dialectal Englishskimp(“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

skip (third-person singular simple presentskips,present participleskipping,simple past and past participleskipped)

1. (intransitive) Tomove byhopping onalternatefeet.

   She willskip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

2. (intransitive) Toleapaboutlightly.
   • 1733, [Alexander Pope],An Essay on Man. […],(please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed forJ[ohn] Wilford, […],→OCLC:

     The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would heskip and play?

   • 1850,Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 10, inThe Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.:Ticknor, Reed, and Fields,→OCLC:

     So she drew her mother awayskipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.

   • 2011 January 29, Ian Hughes, “Southampton 1 - 2 Man Utd”, inBBC‎^[3]:

     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.

3. (intransitive) Toskim,ricochet orbounce over asurface.

   The rock willskip across the pond.

   • 2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, inBBC‎^[4]:

     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 forJohan Elmander, but it justskipped away from his team-mate's toes.

4. (transitive) Tothrow (something), making it skim, ricochet, orbounce over a surface.

   I bet I canskip this rock to the other side of the pond.

5. (transitive) Todisregard,miss oromit part of acontinuation (someitem orstage).

   My heart willskip a beat.

   I will read most of the book, butskip the first chapter because the video covered it.

   • 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, mayskip these two Chapters, if they please, and proceed to the following

7. (transitive,informal) Not 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 toskip it.

8. (transitive,informal) Toleave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.

   toskip the country

   a customer whoskipped town without paying her hotel bill

   • 1998,Baha Men,Who Let the Dogs Out?:

     I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast
     She really want toskip town
     Get back off me, beast off me
     Get back you flea-infested mongrel

9. To leap lightly over.

   toskip the rope

10. Tojump rope.

    The girls wereskipping in the playground.

11. To cause thestylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record'sgroove, continously repeating that part of the sound, as a result of excessive scratching or wear.(of aphonograph record)
12. (knitting,crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
13. (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.

    Antonym:stack

• (informal, not to attend):(US)play hooky

skip (pluralskips)

1. Aleaping orjumping movement; the action of one who skips.
2. The act of passing over aninterval from one thing to another; anomission of a part.
   1. (video games) A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to bemandatory.
3. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.^[4]
4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
   • 2012, Susan Nash,Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond, page19:

     Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type ofskips.

5. (radio)skywavepropagation
6. (informal) Asong, typically one on analbum, that is not worth listening to.

FromMiddle Englishskep,skeppe, fromOld Englishsceppe, fromOld Norseskeppa,skjappa(“basket, bushel, measure”), perhaps fromMiddle Low Germanscheppe(“a unit of weight”), perhaps related toMiddle Low Germanschēpel(“buschel, measurement for grain”),GermanScheffel(“bushel”). These could all ultimately be related to*skap(“shape”).

skip (pluralskips)

2. (Commonwealth,UK,Ireland) 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 byhydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.

   Synonym:dumpster(chiefly North America)

4. (mining) A transportation container in amine, usually forore ormullock.
   • 1929,Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,When the World Screamed‎^[5]:

     Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which theskips were fastened which drew up thedébris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.

6. (steelmaking) Askip car.
8. (UK,Scotland,dialect) Askep, orbasket, such as acreel or ahandbasket.
10. Awheeledbasket chiefly used intextilefactories.
12. (sugar manufacture) Acharge ofsyrup in thepans.
14. Abeehive made ofwoven straw,wicker, etc.

    Synonym:skep

    Hypernyms:beehive,hive

• mini skip
• skip hoist
• skip lorry
• skip-raiding

skip (third-person singular simple presentskips,present participleskipping,simple past and past participleskipped)

1. (transitive) Toplace anitem in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

LateMiddle Englishskipper, borrowed fromMiddle Dutch andMiddle Low Germanschipper(“captain”), earlier "seaman", fromschip(“ship”).

skip (pluralskips)

1. Askipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
   1. (sometimes as a term of address) The captain of a sports team.
2. (curling) The player whocalls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
3. (bowls) The captain of abowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's lastwood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
4. (scouting,informal) Thescoutmaster of a troop ofscouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.

A reference to the television seriesSkippy the Bush Kangaroo; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them.^[5] Ultimately from etymology 1 (above).

• skippy

skip (pluralskips)

1. (Australia,slang) AnAustralian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
   • 2001,Effie (character played byMary Coustas),Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode:Nearest and Dearest,

     Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?

     Barber: She is Australian.

     Effie: Is she? Gone for askip. You little radical you.

• limey
• wog

17th-century Ireland. Possibly aclipping ofskip-kennel(“young lackey or assistant”).^[6] Used atTrinity College Dublin.^[7]

skip (pluralskips)

1. (Trinity College,Dublin,historical) A college servant.
   • 1703,Edward Ward,The London-spy Compleat, 5th edition, volume 1, part 7, published1713,page157:

     Behind the Counter stood a complaisant Spark, who I observ'd shew'd as much Breeding in the sale of a Penny-worth of Tobacco, and the change of a Shilling, as aCourtier's Footman when he meets his BrotherSkip in the middle ofCovent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn[…]

   • 1842 October, Billy Sheridan, “Reminiscences of College Life”, inTait's Edinburgh Magazine,page682:

     He constitutes, probably, the identical exception which Sir Boyle Roche had in his mind's eye, when he broached his famous problem, that "a man cannot be in two places at once,barring he is a bird." Theskip, or according to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at several places. He must be at Kinshan's on Carlisle Bridge, for Mr. Moriarty's half-pound of tea, at the very moment thatSir Looby, in the Botany Bay Square, requires his three eggs; and the Billy Sheridan of the day is singing out, like Stentor, from the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice beside the library, for the "lazy rascal!"

   • 1849,William Makepeace Thackeray, “Flight after Defeat”, inThe History of Pendennis:

     His wounded tutor, his many duns, theskip and bed-maker who waited upon him, the undergraduates of his own time and the years below him, whom he had patronised or scorned—how could he bear to look any of them in the face now?

• gyp(Cambridge University)
• scout(Oxford University)

Clipping ofskip-levelmanager.

skip (pluralskips)

1. (slang) Askip-levelmanager; theboss of one'sboss.

   Synonym:grandboss

   Myskip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.

• Kips,PIKs,kips,KPIs,spik,KIPS

FromDutchschip.

• IPA^(key):/skəp/

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skip (pluralskepe,diminutiveskippieorskepie)

1. ship

• → Northern Ndebele:isikepe
• → Shona:chikepe
• → Sotho:sekepe
• → Tsonga:xikepe
• → Xhosa:isikhephe
• → Zulu:isikebhe

FromOld Norseskip, fromProto-Germanic*skipą.

• IPA^(key):/ʃiːp/
• Rhymes:-iːp

skip n (genitive singularskips, pluralskip)

1. ship
2. (architecture)nave (of a church)

• kips
• spik

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skip m (pluralskips)

1. (mining)skip

skip m orf (pluralskips)

1. (curling)skip

• “skip”, inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

skip

1. Romanization of𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀

FromOld Norseskip, fromProto-Germanic*skipą.

• IPA^(key):[scɪːp]
• Rhymes:-ɪːp

skip n (genitive singularskips,nominative pluralskip)

1. ship,boat

   Synonyms:bátur m,gnoð f,kafs hestur m

• flaggskip
• geimskip
• sjóræningjaskip

• spik

FromOld Norseskip, fromProto-Germanic*skipą. Cognate withSwedishskepp,Icelandicskip,Gothic𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀(skip),GermanSchiff,Dutchschip, andEnglishship.

• IPA^(key):/ʃiːp/

skip n (definite singularskipet,indefinite pluralskip,definite pluralskipaorskipene)

1. ship

• båt

• “skip” inThe Bokmål Dictionary.
• “skip” inDet Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

FromOld Norseskip, fromProto-Germanic*skipą. Akin toEnglishship.

• IPA^(key):/ʃiːp/

skip n (definite singularskipet,indefinite pluralskip,definite pluralskipa)

1. ship

• båt

For other terms please refer toskip(Bokmål) for the time being.

• “skip” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.

FromProto-Germanic*skipą, whence alsoOld Englishscip (Englishship),Old Saxonskip,Old High Germanskif,Gothic𐍃𐌺𐌹𐍀(skip).

• IPA^(key):/skip/

skip n (genitiveskips,pluralskip)

1. ship

• skipari

• Icelandic:skip
• Faroese:skip
• Norwegian Nynorsk:skip
• Old Swedish:skip
  • Swedish:skepp
• Old Danish:skip
  • Danish:skib
    • Norwegian Bokmål:skip
  • Scanian:śevv
• → Irish:scib
• → Scottish Gaelic:sgioba

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “skip”, inA Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at theInternet Archive

FromProto-West Germanic*skip, fromProto-Germanic*skipą, whence alsoOld Englishsċip,Old Frisianskip,Old High Germanskif,Old Norseskip.

skip n

1. ship

• Middle Low German:schip,schep
  • German Low German:Schipp,Schepp

• sjib

Inherited fromNorwegian Nynorskskip.

skip

1. ship

FromOld Frisianskip, fromProto-West Germanic*skip, fromProto-Germanic*skipą.

• IPA^(key):/skɪp/

skip n (pluralskippen,diminutiveskipke)

1. ship
2. shipload
3. nave (of a church)

• “skip (I)”, inWurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch),2011