Definitions for skip

Overview of noun skip

The noun skip has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. skip

(a gait in which steps and hops alternate)

2. omission, skip

(a mistake resulting from neglect)

Overview of verb skip

The verb skip has 6 senses? (first 3 from tagged texts)

1. (7) jump, pass over, skip, skip over

(bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible")

2. (1) cut, skip

(intentionally fail to attend; "cut class")

3. (1) hop, skip, hop-skip

(jump lightly)

4. decamp, skip, vamoose

(leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town")

5. skip, bound off

(bound off one point after another)

6. skim, skip, skitter

(cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond")