Meaning of Skip | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
2. A large container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents, or to be picked up by hydraulic arms so that its contents can be dumped into the truck.
   Commonwealth, Ireland, UK
3. A skipper; the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
   often
4. A male given name from Old Norse.
5. An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
   Australia, often, slang
6. A college servant.
   historical, often
7. A skip-level manager; the boss of one's boss.
   often, slang
8. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
9. A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
10. The captain of a sports team.
    often
11. 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.
12. A skip car.
13. The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
    often
14. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
15. A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
    Scotland, UK, dialectal
16. The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
    often
17. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
18. A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
19. The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization).
    informal, often
20. skywave propagation
21. A charge of syrup in the pans.
22. A song, typically one on an album, that is not worth listening to.
    informal
23. A beehive made of woven straw, wicker, etc.

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Examples

“Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.”

“Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.”

“In a panic he pushed the prostesting Catweazle inside an empty clothes skip and sat down on the lid just as his father and Sam came in.”

“2001, Effie (character played by Mary Coustas), Effie: Just Quietly (TV series), Episode: Nearest and Dearest, 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.”

“Behind the Counter stood a complaisant Spark, who I observ'd shew'd as much Breeding in the sale of a Penny-worth of Tobacco, and the change of a Shilling, as a Courtier's Footman when he meets his Brother Skip in the middle of Covent-Garden; and is so very dexterous in discharge of his Occupation, the he guesses from a Pound of Tobacco to an Ounce to the certainty of one Corn […]”

“He constitutes, probably, the identical exception which Sir Boyle Roche had in his mind's eye, when he broached his famous problem, that "a man cannot be in two places at once, barring he is a bird." The skip, or according to the Oxford etymology, the man-vulture, is not fit for his calling who cannot time his business so as to be present simultaneously at several places. He must be at Kinshan's on Carlisle Bridge, for Mr. Moriarty's half-pound of tea, at the very moment that Sir Looby, in the Botany Bay Square, requires his three eggs; and the Billy Sheridan of the day is singing out, like Stentor, from the tiles and skylights of a coctile edifice beside the library, for the "lazy rascal!"”

“His wounded tutor, his many duns, the skip and bed-maker who waited upon him, the undergraduates of his own time and the years below him, whom he had patronised or scorned—how could he bear to look any of them in the face now?”

“My skip is helpful when my team lead is being uptight.”

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