Definitions for skips

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IPA: /skɪp/

Skips is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in skips (ikpss).

Definitions for skips

noun

1. a skipping movement; a light jump or bounce.
2. a gait marked by such jumps.
3. a passing from one point or thing to another, with disregard of what intervenes:
4. Music. a melodic interval greater than a second.
5. a natural depression below the surface of a planed board.
6. Informal. a person who has absconded in order to avoid paying debts or meeting other financial responsibilities.
7. the captain of a curling or bowling team.
8. Informal. skipper1 .
9. Mining. a metal box for carrying ore, hauled vertically or on an incline.
10. skip car.

Verb phrases

1. skip out on, Informal. to flee or abandon; desert:

verb (used with object)

1. to jump lightly over:
2. to pass over without reading, noting, acting, etc.:
3. to miss or omit (one of a repeated series of rhythmic actions):
4. to be absent from; avoid attendance at:
5. to send (a missile) ricocheting along a surface.
6. Informal. to leave hastily and secretly or to flee from (a place):
7. to serve as skip of (a curling or bowling team).
8. Informal. skipper1 .

verb (used without object)

1. to move in a light, springy manner by bounding forward with alternate hops on each foot.
2. to pass from one point, thing, subject, etc., to another, disregarding or omitting what intervenes:
3. to go away hastily and secretly; flee without notice.
4. Education. to be advanced two or more classes or grades at once.
5. to ricochet or bounce along a surface:

Origin of skips

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English skippen, perhaps Old Norse skopa to run (compare Icelandic skoppa to skip); (noun) late Middle English skyppe, derivative of the v.

Examples for skips

But failing that, he advised pro-immigration reform Republican candidates such as former Gov. Jeb Bush to just skip the state.

But the minute we started to skip out the professor says, "No, you don't!"

She jumped at the chance to watch RT, or jumped at the chance to skip calculus homework.

On reaching the top of the brow, she began to skip and run where the road descends by Folieu.

Ultimately, 2015 might be the year American anti-LGBT advocates wish they could skip.

The human attention span is evolving in such a way that they can skip around.

Sometimes I have half a mind to skip off and do my wooing myself.

Cal'late Lulie forgot that when she told him to skip out that way.

But the man appears so weary that I decide to skip the dull stuff and get to the heat.

I skip it all, the renewed greetings, the hospitality, the noise.