Definitions for skirts

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skirts skirt

Spelling: [skurt]

IPA: /skɜrt/

Skirts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 76 anagrams from letters in skirts (ikrsst).

Definitions for skirts

noun

1. the part of a gown, dress, slip, or coat that extends downward from the waist.
2. a one-piece garment extending downward from the waist and not joined between the legs, worn especially by women and girls.
3. some part resembling or suggesting the skirt of a garment, as the flared lip of a bell or a protective and ornamental cloth strip covering the legs of furniture.
4. a small leather flap on each side of a saddle, covering the metal bar from which the stirrup hangs.
5. Building Trades. baseboard (def 1). apron (def 13).
6. Also called apron. Furniture. a flat horizontal brace set immediately beneath the seat of a chair, chest of drawers, or the like, to strengthen the legs. Also called bed, frieze. a flat brace or support immediately beneath a tabletop.
7. Usually, skirts. the bordering, marginal, or outlying part of a place, group, etc.; the outskirts.
8. Older Slang: Usually Disparaging and Offensive. a term used to refer to a woman or girl:
9. Rocketry. an outer part of a rocket or missile that provides structural support or houses such systems as avionics or gyroscopes.

verb (used with object)

1. to lie on or along the border of:
2. to border, wrap, or cover with a skirt or something suggesting a skirt in appearance or function.
3. to pass along or around the border or edge of:
4. to avoid, go around the edge of, or keep distant from (something that is controversial, risky, etc.):
5. to remove low-grade wool and foreign matter from (the outer edge of fleece).

verb (used without object)

1. to be or lie on or along the edge of something.
2. to move along or around the border of something.

Origin of skirts

1250-1300; Middle English skirte Old Norse skyrta shirt

Examples for skirts

In November last year her Orla Kiely skirt blew up in the wind when she visited a charity function in London.

The skirt was long enough to tuck around her baby's feet when she carried it.

Forced C-section debates often skirt or even devolve into a proxy pro-choice/pro-life debate, explains Diaz-Tello.

On stage, Amber spoofed Sarah Palin in a topknot and librarian glasses, yanking a toy gun and stuffed moose from her skirt.

As he says, most men are not predatory sex pests, trying to force themselves on women, get a hand up her skirt, or cop a feel.

"Yes," said Lucindy, smiling, and plaiting her skirt between her nervous fingers.

It would be impossible to do press for the film and skirt questions about the Jolie-Pitt nuptials.

The dress was of silky changeable tricolette, the skirt plain.

Some roses grew behind the hollyhocks, and her skirt was caught.

She was paying minute attention to the lace insertion of her skirt.