HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (Australia, of males) homosexual
2. (New Zealand, historical) lesbian (in Maori communities)

noun

1. Alternative form of tapa (“Polynesian cloth”)

verb

1. (obsolete) Pronunciation spelling of keep.

noun

1. The eleventh letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

noun

1. A headcovering worn by many women of certain Anabaptist Christian traditions (especially Mennonites and Amish) for religious reasons. (Also spelled cap.)

noun

1. (computing) Initialism of kilobits per second.

noun

1. (engineering) A cap for holding something, such as a journal box, in place.
2. (historical) The main tower of a castle or fortress, located within the castle walls.
3. (obsolete) That which is kept in charge; a charge.
4. (obsolete) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge; notice.
5. The food or money required to keep someone alive and healthy; one's support, maintenance.
6. The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case.

verb

1. (archaic) To remain in; to be confined to.
2. (copulative) To remain in a state.
3. (ditransitive) To maintain the condition of; to preserve in a certain state.
4. (intransitive, cricket) To act as wicket-keeper.
5. (intransitive, obsolete) To be in session; to take place.
6. (intransitive, obsolete) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch.
7. (obsolete) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell.
8. (obsolete) To wait for, keep watch for.
9. (of living things) To raise; to care for.
10. (transitive) To enter (accounts, records, etc.) in a book.
11. (transitive) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; to not swerve from or violate.
12. (transitive) To record transactions, accounts, or events in.
13. (transitive, dated) To observe or celebrate (a holiday).
14. (transitive, dated, by extension) To visit (a place) often; to frequent.
15. (with from) To watch over, look after, guard, protect.
16. To continue in (a course or mode of action); to not intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain.
17. To continue.
18. To have habitually in stock for sale.
19. To maintain (an establishment or institution); to conduct; to manage.
20. To maintain possession of.
21. To refrain from freely disclosing (a secret).
22. To remain edible or otherwise usable.
23. To remain faithful to a given promise or word.
24. To restrain.
25. To supply with necessities and financially support (a person).

noun

1. Any of several large brown algae seaweeds (order Laminariales).
2. The calcined ashes of seaweed, formerly used in glass and iodine manufacture.

verb

1. (intransitive) To gather kelp.

adj

1. (obsolete) Shaggy; rough.

noun

1. (Scotland, archaic) A contest in work, etc.
2. (obsolete) A champion; a knight.
3. (obsolete) Coarse, rough hair, wool, or fur; (in the plural) knotty hairs that will not felt.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To strive or contend in any way; strive for victory.

noun

1. A cap with a flat circular top and a visor, particularly associated with French uniforms.

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of keep

noun

1. Dated form of kelp.

noun

1. Alternative spelling of kype (“Upturned lower jaw of a male salmonid”)
2. An osier basket used for catching fish.

noun

1. plural of kip

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kip

noun

1. A protuberance; a swelling; a knob.
2. A sharp blow or slap.
3. A small hill
4. The crest of a hill

verb

1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) To bite; to bite off; to break short.
2. (transitive) To rap or strike sharply.
3. (transitive) To shape a brittle material having conchoidal fracture, usually a mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.), by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point.
4. To make a sound of snapping.

noun

1. A knob, usually ornamental

noun

1. Alternative form of qoph

noun

1. plural of kop

noun

1. (medicine) An envelope, or wrapping, of sheets used in hydropathic practice, called dry pack, wet pack, cold pack, etc., according to the method of treatment.
2. (roller derby) The largest group of blockers from both teams skating in close proximity.
3. (rugby) The forwards in a rugby team (eight in Rugby Union, six in Rugby League) who with the opposing pack constitute the scrum.
4. (slang) A loose, lewd, or worthless person.
5. (snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
6. A bundle made up and prepared to be carried; especially, a bundle to be carried on the back, but also a load for an animal, a bale.
7. A bundle of sheet iron plates for rolling simultaneously.
8. A flock of knots.
9. A full set of playing cards
10. A group of Cub Scouts.
11. A group of hounds or dogs, hunting or kept together.
12. A group of people associated or leagued in a bad design or practice; a gang.
13. A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
14. A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack
15. A number or quantity of connected or similar things; a collective.
16. A shook of cask staves.
17. A wolfpack: a number of wolves, hunting together.
18. The assortment of playing cards used in a particular game.

verb

1. (intransitive) To depart in haste; – generally with off or away.
2. (intransitive) To form a compact mass, especially in order for transportation.
3. (intransitive) To make up packs, bales, or bundles; to stow articles securely for transportation.
4. (intransitive) To put together for morally wrong purposes; to join in cahoots.
5. (intransitive, LGBT, of a drag king, trans man, etc.) To wear an object, such as a prosthetic penis, inside one’s trousers to appear more male or masculine.
6. (intransitive, of animals) To gather together in flocks, herds, schools or similar groups of animals.
7. (intransitive, rugby, of the forwards in a rugby team) To play together cohesively, specially with reference to their technique in the scrum.
8. (transitive) To bring together or make up unfairly, in order to secure a certain result.
9. (transitive) To cause to go; to send away with baggage or belongings; especially, to send away peremptorily or suddenly; – sometimes with off. See pack off.
10. (transitive) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
11. (transitive) To fill in the manner of a pack, that is, compactly and securely, as for transportation; hence, to fill closely or to repletion; to stow away within; to cause to be full; to crowd into.
12. (transitive) To load with a pack
13. (transitive) To make a pack of; to arrange closely and securely in a pack; hence, to place and arrange compactly as in a pack
14. (transitive) To make impervious, such as by filling or surrounding with suitable material, or to fit or adjust so as to move without allowing air, water, or steam inside.
15. (transitive) To wrap in a wet or dry sheet, within numerous coverings.
16. (transitive, US, chiefly Western US) To transport in a pack, or in the manner of a pack (on the backs of men or animals).
17. (transitive, card games) To sort and arrange (the cards) in the pack to give oneself an unfair advantage
18. (transitive, figurative) to load; to encumber.
19. (transitive, historical) To combine (telegraph messages) in order to send them more cheaply as a single transmission.
20. (transitive, slang) To carry weapons, especially firearms, on one's person.
21. (transitive, sports, slang) To block a shot, especially in basketball.

noun

1. Alternative letter-case form of Paki

noun

1. (slang, derogatory, rare) An irritating or stupid person.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A space in which to leave a car; a parking space.
2. (UK) An inventory of matériel.
3. (US) A wide, flat-bottomed valley in a mountainous region.
4. A partially enclosed basin in which oysters are grown.
5. A piece of ground in or near a city or town, enclosed and kept for ornament and recreation.
6. A tract of ground kept in its natural state, about or adjacent to a residence, such as for the preservation of game, for walking, riding, or the like.
7. An area on which a sporting match is played; (soccer) a pitch.
8. An area zoned for a particular (industrial or commercial) purpose.
9. An enclosed parcel of land stocked with animals for hunting, which one may have by prescription or royal grant.
10. An open space occupied by or reserved for vehicles, matériel or stores.

verb

1. (Internet) To register a domain name, but make no use of it (See domain parking)
2. (intransitive, dated) To promenade or drive in a park.
3. (intransitive, dated, of horses) To display style or gait on a park drive.
4. (intransitive, slang) To engage in romantic or sexual activities inside a nonmoving vehicle that was driven to a suitable spot for that purpose.
5. (transitive) To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place.
6. (transitive) To bring together in a park, or compact body.
7. (transitive) To enclose in a park, or as in a park.
8. (transitive, baseball) To hit a home run; to hit the ball out of the park.
9. (transitive, finance) To invest money temporarily in an investment instrument considered to relatively free of risk, especially while awaiting other opportunities.
10. (transitive, informal) To defer (a matter) until a later date.
11. (transitive, informal, sometimes reflexive) To sit, recline, or put, especially in a manner suggesting an intent to remain for some time.
12. (transitive, oyster culture) To enclose in a park, or partially enclosed basin.

noun

1. (Scotland) A wile
2. A small lobster.

adj

1. (MLE) Bad
2. (MLE) Unlucky; unfortunate
3. (slang) Maximal, quintessential, archetypical; representing the culmination of its type.
4. At the greatest extent; maximum.

noun

1. (geography) The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point.
2. (geography) The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
3. (mathematics) A local maximum of a function, e.g. for sine waves, each point at which the value of y is at its maximum.
4. (nautical) The extremity of an anchor fluke; the bill.
5. (nautical) The narrow part of a vessel's bow, or the hold within it.
6. (nautical) The upper aftermost corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
7. A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.
8. Alternative form of peag (“wampum”).
9. The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period.

verb

1. (gender-critical) To cause to adopt gender-critical or trans-exclusionary views (ellipsis of peak trans).
2. (intransitive) To acquire sharpness of figure or features; hence, to look thin or sickly.
3. (intransitive) To become sick or wan.
4. (intransitive) To pry; to peep slyly.
5. (transitive, nautical) To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular.
6. To reach a highest degree or maximum.
7. To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak.

noun

1. (UK, slang, obsolete) Food.
2. A great deal; a large or excessive quantity.
3. A small kiss.
4. An act of striking with a beak.
5. Discoloration caused by fungus growth or insects.
6. Misspelling of pec.
7. One quarter of a bushel; a dry measure of eight quarts.

verb

1. (rare) To type in general.
2. (regional) To throw.
3. (transitive) To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument.
4. (transitive, intransitive) To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird).
5. To do something in small, intermittent pieces.
6. To kiss briefly.
7. To lurch forward; especially, of a horse, to stumble after hitting the ground with the toe instead of the flat of the foot.
8. To seize and pick up with the beak, or as if with the beak; to bite; to eat; often with up.
9. To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements.
10. To type by searching for each key individually.

noun

1. A quick glance or look.
2. Misspelling of pique.

verb

1. (computing, transitive, dated) To retrieve (a value) from a memory address.
2. (informal) To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place.
3. (informal) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.

noun

1. (informal) Alternative letter-case form of Peke (“Pekinese dog”)

noun

1. (UK, dialect, obsolete) A minnow.

adj

1. (obsolete) Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.

noun

1. (informal) Perquisite.
2. (video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.
3. A percolator, particularly of coffee.

verb

1. (dated) To peer; to look inquisitively.
2. (intransitive) To appear from below or behind something, emerge, pop up, poke out.
3. (intransitive, informal) Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To exalt oneself; to bear oneself loftily.
5. (obsolete) To perch.
6. (transitive) To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of.
7. (transitive, informal) To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker.

noun

1. (American football) An interception.
2. (Australia) Pasture; feed, for animals.
3. (art, painting) That which is picked in, as with a pointed pencil, to correct an unevenness in a picture.
4. (baseball) A good defensive play by an infielder.
5. (baseball) A pickoff.
6. (basketball) A screen.
7. (lacrosse) An offensive tactic in which a player stands so as to block a defender from reaching a teammate.
8. (music) A tool used for strumming the strings of a guitar; a plectrum.
9. (nautical, slang) An anchor.
10. (obsolete) A pike or spike; the sharp point fixed in the center of a buckler.
11. (printing, dated) A particle of ink or paper embedded in the hollow of a letter, filling up its face, and causing a spot on a printed sheet.
12. (weaving) The blow that drives the shuttle, used in calculating the speed of a loom (in picks per minute); hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread.
13. A choice; ability to choose.
14. A comb with long widely spaced teeth, for use with tightly curled hair.
15. A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones.
16. A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
17. A tool used for digging; a pickaxe.
18. That which would be picked or chosen first; the best.

verb

1. (American football, informal) To intercept a pass from the offense as a defensive player.
2. (basketball) To screen.
3. (cricket) To recognise the type of ball being bowled by a bowler by studying the position of the hand and arm as the ball is released.
4. (dated) To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
5. (music) To pluck the individual strings of a musical instrument or to play such an instrument.
6. (obsolete) To throw; to pitch.
7. (transitive) To seek (a fight or quarrel) where the opportunity arises.
8. (transitive, intransitive) To separate or open by means of a sharp point or points.
9. To decide upon, from a set of options; to select.
10. To do anything fastidiously or carefully, or by attending to small things; to select something with care.
11. To eat slowly, sparingly, or by morsels; to nibble.
12. To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails.
13. To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground.
14. To open (a lock) with a wire, lock pick, etc.
15. To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck.
16. To remove something from somewhere with a pointed instrument, with the fingers, or with the teeth.
17. To steal; to pilfer.
18. To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.

noun

1. Any of several small, furry mammals, similar to guinea pigs, but related to rabbits, of the family Ochotonidae, from the mountains of North America and Asia.

noun

1. (chiefly Northern England) Especially in place names: a hill or mountain, particularly one with a sharp peak or summit.
2. (chiefly US) Clipping of turnpike.
3. (derogatory, slang) A gypsy, itinerant tramp, or traveller from any ethnic background; a pikey.
4. (diving, gymnastics) A position with the knees straight and a tight bend at the hips with the torso folded over the legs, usually part of a jack-knife.
5. (fashion, dated) A pointy extrusion at the toe of a shoe.
6. (historical) A style of shoes with pikes, popular in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries.
7. (military, historical) A very long spear used two-handed by infantry soldiers for thrusting (not throwing), both for attacks on enemy foot soldiers and as a countermeasure against cavalry assaults.
8. (obsolete) A pick, a pickaxe.
9. (obsolete, Britain, dialectal) A hayfork.
10. (obsolete, often euphemistic) A penis.
11. A large haycock (“conical stack of hay left in a field to dry before adding to a haystack”).
12. A sharp, pointed staff or implement.
13. Any carnivorous freshwater fish of the genus Esox, especially the northern pike, Esox lucius.

verb

1. (intransitive) To equip with a turnpike.
2. (intransitive, Australia, New Zealand, slang) Often followed by on or out: to quit or back out of a promise.
3. (intransitive, gambling) To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money.
4. (intransitive, obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) To depart or travel (as if by a turnpike), especially to flee, to run away.
5. (transitive) To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike.
6. (transitive, intransitive, diving, gymnastics) To assume a pike position.

noun

1. A paper-thin, dry, rolled bread made by the Hopi with nixtamalized blue corn meal.

adj

1. (informal) Relating to homosexuals as a group within society.
2. (informal) Relating to women or girls.
3. (obsolete) By comparison to red (communist), describing someone who sympathizes with the ideals of communism without actually being a Russian-style communist: a pinko.
4. (obsolete) Half-shut; winking.
5. Having a colour between red and white; pale red.
6. Having conjunctivitis.
7. Of a fox-hunter's jacket: scarlet.

noun

1. (color) The colour of this flower, between red and white; pale red.
2. (dated) A perfect example; excellence, perfection; the embodiment of some quality.
3. (historical) Any of various lake pigments or dyes in yellow, yellowish green, or brown shades made with plant coloring and a metallic oxide base.
4. (now obsolete) A narrow boat.
5. (obsolete) A small hole or eyelet punched in a garment for decoration, as with a pinking iron; a scallop.
6. (obsolete) A small hole or puncture made by a sharp, slender instrument such as a rapier, poniard or dagger, or (by extension) a bullet; a stab.
7. (regional) A young Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar, before it becomes a smolt; a parr.
8. (regional) The common minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus.
9. (slang) An unlettered and uncultured, but relatively prosperous, member of the middle classes; compare Babbitt, bourgeoisie.
10. (slang) The vagina or vulva.
11. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
12. Alternative form of pinko
13. Any of various flowers in the genus Dianthus, sometimes called carnations.
14. Hunting pink; scarlet, as worn by hunters.

verb

1. (intransitive) To become pink in color, to redden.
2. (obsolete) To wink; to blink.
3. (transitive) To turn (a topaz or other gemstone) pink by the application of heat.
4. (transitive) To turn (something) pink.
5. Of a motor car, to emit a high "pinking" noise, usually as a result of ill-set ignition timing for the fuel used (in a spark ignition engine).
6. Of a musical instrument, to sound a very high-pitched, short note.
7. To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe.
8. To prick with a sword.
9. To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule.

noun

1. plural of pkg

noun

1. A pus-filled swelling on the surface on the skin caused by an eruptive disease.
2. Any pit, especially one formed as a scar

verb

1. To scar or mark with pits

noun

1. (Hawaii) Slices or cubes of raw fish or other raw seafood, mixed with sesame oil, seaweed, sea salt, herbs, spices, or other flavorful ingredients.
2. (Scotland, Northern Ireland) An ice cream cone.
3. (US) A device to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences, consisting of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward.
4. (US, slang) A lazy person; a dawdler.
5. (US, slang) A stupid or uninteresting person.
6. (baseball, slang) A hit, especially an extra base hit.
7. (computing, dated) The storage of a value in a memory address, typically to modify the behaviour of a program or to cheat at a video game.
8. (dialectal) Pokeweed.
9. (informal, social media) A notification sent to get another user's attention on social media or an instant messenger.
10. (now regional) A sack or bag.
11. 1605, William Camden, Remaines Concerning Brittaine, 1629 edition, Proverbes, page 276:
12. 1627, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, 1907 edition, poem Nimphidia:
13. 1814, September 4, The Examiner, volume 13, number 349, article French Fashions, page 573:
14. 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, page 138:
15. A long, wide sleeve.
16. A poke bonnet.
17. A prod, jab, or thrust.
18. An old, worn-out horse.

verb

1. (figuratively) To rummage; to feel or grope around.
2. (transitive) To put a poke (device to prevent leaping or breaking fences) on (an animal).
3. (transitive) To thrust (something) in a particular direction such as the tongue.
4. (transitive) To thrust at with the horns; to gore.
5. (transitive, computing, dated) To modify the value stored in (a memory address).
6. (transitive, informal, social media) To notify (another user) of activity on social media or an instant messenger.
7. (transitive, slang, vulgar) To penetrate in sexual intercourse.
8. To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick.
9. To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning.

adj

1. (of a room or other enclosed space) Small and cramped, and often shabby.
2. Stupid; mentally dull.

noun

1. A gambling device based on the card game poker.

verb

1. (obsolete, slang) To dance the polka.

noun

1. (MLE, slang, collective) law enforcement, those who side with criminal prosecution
2. (US politics, slang, derogatory) Funding proposed or requested by a member of Congress for special interests or their constituency as opposed to the good of the country as a whole.
3. (slang) A shag; a fuck; an act of coitus.
4. (uncountable) The meat of a pig; swineflesh.

verb

1. (transitive, slang, vulgar, usually of a male) To have sex with (someone).

noun

1. (Ireland, rural) billy goat
2. (chiefly Canada) An object shaped like a puck.
3. (computing) A pointing device with a crosshair.
4. (hurling, camogie) A penalty shot.
5. (ice hockey) A hard rubber disc; any other flat disc meant to be hit across a flat surface in a game.
6. (now rare) A mischievous or hostile spirit.
7. (trampoline, gymnastics) A body position between the pike and tuck positions, with knees slightly bent and folded in; open tuck.

verb

1. (chiefly Ireland) To hit, strike.

noun

1. A small, usually perforated, wave- and beach-polished shell fragment formed from the spire of a cone, found along beaches of Pacific islands, and used especially to make necklaces.
2. Alternative form of pooka

noun

1. (US, slang, derogatory, countable) A person from Missouri.
2. (colloquial, countable) A drug that induces vomiting.
3. (colloquial, countable) A worthless, despicable person.
4. (colloquial, uncountable) vomit.
5. A fine grade of woolen cloth.
6. A very dark, dull, brownish-red color.

verb

1. (colloquial, transitive, intransitive) To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach.
2. (intransitive, finance, slang) To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market.

noun

1. (New Zealand) The belly.
2. A small antelope found in Central Africa (Kobus vardonii)

adj

1. Alternative form of pukey

noun

1. A small sled, used for man-hauling supplies across snow and ice.

adj

1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) Cowardly.
2. Bad, substandard.
3. Of or concerning punk rock or its associated subculture.
4. Poorly, sickly.
5. Thuggish, criminal.

noun

1. (LGBT, obsolete) Synonym of catamite: a boy or younger man used by an older as a (usually passive) homosexual partner.
2. (US, LGBT, derogatory, chiefly African-American Vernacular) Synonym of faggot: any male homosexual.
3. (US, LGBT, prison slang) Synonym of bitch: a man forced or coerced into a homosexual relationship, especially in prison.
4. (US, LGBT, slang) A boy who accompanies a hobo, especially as used for sex.
5. (chiefly US, LGBT) Synonym of bottom: any passive or effeminate homosexual male.
6. (circus slang) A young, untrained animal or worker.
7. (countable) A utensil for lighting wicks or fuses (such as those of fireworks) resembling stick incense.
8. (countable) Short for punk rocker, a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre.
9. (countable, US slang) A worthless person
10. (derogatory) A petty criminal, especially a juvenile delinquent.
11. (derogatory) Synonym of sissy: a weak, timid person.
12. (humorous, rare) Synonym of fellow: any person, especially a male comrade.
13. (now historical and rare) Synonym of prostitute: a person paid for sex.
14. (uncountable) Any material used as tinder for lighting fires, such as agaric, dried wood, or touchwood, but especially wood altered by certain fungi.
15. (uncountable) The larger nonconformist social movement associated with punk rock and its fans.
16. (uncountable, music) Short for punk rock, a genre known for short, loud, energetic songs with electric guitars and strong drums.
17. Any of the punk genres: dieselpunk, solarpunk, steampunk etc.
18. Synonym of amateur.

verb

1. (especially with "out") To give up or concede; to act like a wimp.
2. (often with "out" or "up") To adapt or embellish in the style of the punk movement.
3. To forcibly perform anal sex upon an unwilling partner.
4. To pimp.
5. To prank.

noun

1. Obsolete form of pike.

verb

1. Obsolete form of peek.
2. Obsolete form of pick.

noun

1. A basket.
2. A beehive made of straw or wicker.

noun

1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
2. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
3. (Scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
4. (Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
5. (UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
6. (bowls) 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.
7. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
8. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
9. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
10. (radio) skywave propagation
11. (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
12. (steelmaking) A skip car.
13. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
14. A beehive.
15. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
16. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
17. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
18. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
19. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

verb

1. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
2. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
4. (knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
5. (of a phonograph record) To cause the stylus to jump back to the previous loop of the record's groove, continously repeating that part of the sound as a result of excessive scratching or wear.
6. (printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
7. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
8. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
9. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
10. (transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
11. To jump rope.
12. To leap lightly over.
13. To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).

noun

1. Alternative spelling of spic