Third-person singular simple present indicative form of kip
pisk
skip
skip
noun
(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).
(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
(Scouting, informal) The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
(Trinity College, Dublin, historical) A college servant.
(UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
(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.
(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
(radio) skywave propagation
(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
(steelmaking) A skip car.
(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
A beehive.
A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
verb
(intransitive) To leap about lightly.
(intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
(intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
(knitting, crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.
(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.
(printing) To have insufficient ink transfer.
(transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
(transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
(transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
(transitive, informal) To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.
To jump rope.
To leap lightly over.
To place an item in a skip (etymology 2, sense 1).
