skip
/skɪp/ noun C2- A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
- The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
- A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
- A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
- A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
- skywave propagation
- A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
Plural skips
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 place C2
- 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 out To shirk
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