to skip

Definition of to skip in English English dictionary: The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks; Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority; An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent
2001: Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she? Barber: She is Australian. Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you. — Mary Coustas as her character Effie, TV series Effie: Just Quietly, 2001, episode Nearest and Dearest.; 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 to skip it.; To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface
I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.; To leap about lightly; To place an item in a skip; To omit or disregard (some item or stage)
I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.; To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country
Get back you flea infested mongrel.; A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock; To jump rope; {n} a light leap; {v} to leap, bound, pass; A beehive; a skep; To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss; as, to skip a line in reading; to skip a lesson; A leaping, jumping or skipping movement; the player who holds the broom as a target for shots by the other three players Skips are also the team strategists and must study, or read, the ice; anticipate the amount of curl, and then call the shots Skips usually throw the last two rocks of each end; the ability of radio waves to reflect off the ionosphere; A container to haul rock from a mine; To move by hopping on alternate feet; A container used in the mine shaft to vertically transport the ore up the mine shaft to the surface; jump lightly; cause to skip over a surface; "Skip a stone across the pond"; An atmospheric phenomenon which occasionally allows RF transmissions to be received at unexpectedly great distances, usually for only brief periods of time; A shorthand for "Replace With Nothing" Example: "Pass the Axle, Skip the third part"; The team captain, who plans strategy, holds the broom as a target for shots by the other three players, and usually throws the last two stones of each end; When a CD player quickly advances up to the start of the track (e g , I like the skip feature when I get a new CD and want to check it out fast ); A guided steel hoppit used in vertical or inclined shafts for winding coal or mineral It can also be adapted to carry people; To omit or disregard intermediate items or stages; To leap lightly over; as, to skip the rope; To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface; A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories; leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"; a gait in which steps and hops alternate bound off one point after another; Simple Key management for Internet Protocols, an alternative to IKE developed by Sun and being marketed by their Internet Commerce Group; SKIP, a message type in OLDI context; A backup level in which files are skipped and not backed up; A skip is a large, open, metal container which is used to hold and take away large unwanted items and rubbish; The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part; If you skip along, you move almost as if you are dancing, with a series of little jumps from one foot to the other. They saw the man with a little girl skipping along behind him She was skipping to keep up with him. Skip is also a noun. The boxer gave a little skip as he came out of his corner; a mistake resulting from neglect; a signal route from the transmitter up to the ionosphere and back down to the earth; An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call "wogs"), not used by Anglo Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be used as such); If you skip or skip over a part of something you are reading or a story you are telling, you miss it out or pass over it quickly and move on to something else. You might want to skip the exercises in this chapter She reinvented her own life story, skipping over the war years when she had a German lover; container used to hoist rock in shafts; To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; often followed by over; bound off one point after another; The user can skip to the next message by tapping SKIP Multiple taps of SKIP will allow the user to step forward through messages all the way to the last message; An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep; intentionally fail to attend; "cut class"; Captain, pilot with the ECC Rangers assigned to earth security; The captain of the team, often plays last two stones of a team in an end; An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock; Refers to frame processing See drop; To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; commonly implying a sportive spirit; {f} move forward in a series of light jumps; leap lightly; pass over; leave out, exclude, omit; leave, flee, escape (Informal); fail to attend (school, etc.); A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once; To cause to skip; as, to skip a stone; Melodic movement of more than one whole step; {i} act of skipping; bounce, spring, jump; act of passing over something, omission, exclusion; Fig; When someone skips, they jump up and down over a rope which they or two other people are holding at each end and turning round and round. In American English, you say that someone skips rope. Outside, children were skipping and singing a rhyme They skip rope and play catch, waiting for the bell. + skipping skip·ping Skipping is one of the most enjoyable aerobic activities; Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship; bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"; The player who determines the strategy, reads the ice and directs play for his team Generally the skip delivers the last pair of stones for his team in each end; A basket; If you skip something that you usually do or something that most people do, you decide not to do it. It is important not to skip meals Her daughter started skipping school. = miss; a gait in which steps and hops alternate; Simple Key Management Protocol (SKIP) is an authentication/encryption system that secures the network at the IP packet level; If you skip from one subject or activity to another, you move quickly from one to the other although there is no obvious connection between them. She kept up a continuous chatter, skipping from one subject to the next. = jump