skip
/skɪp/ verb C2- To place (an item) in a skip (large container for waste).
He/she/it skips · Past skipped · Past participle skipped · -ing form skipping
Verb forms
- Base form
- skip
- He/she/it
- skips
- Past
- skipped
- Past participle
- skipped
- -ing form
- skipping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
Now you must be content to skip ten or eleven whole years, and only guess at all the wonderful life that Mowgli led among the wolves, because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books.
Other matches
- skip To move by hopping on alternate feet. B2
- skip To act as skipper, or captain, of a team. C2
- skip A skip-level manager C2
- skip A college servant. C2
- skip The player who calls the shots and traditionall... C2
- skip A transportation container in a mine, usually f... C2
- skip A leaping or jumping movement C2
- skip out To shirk
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