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.
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.
(transitive) Tothrow (something), making it skim, ricochet, orbounce over a surface.
I bet I canskip this rock to the other side of the pond.
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
(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.
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)
(knitting,crochet) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
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Aleaping orjumping movement; the action of one who skips.
The act of passing over aninterval from one thing to another; anomission of a part.
(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.
(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.[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.
(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.
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.
(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.
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).
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!"
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?
