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skip

/skɪp/ verb

In Latin: salito, sallito Wiktionary

verb Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about skip at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

To move by hopping on alternate feet.
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
To leap about lightly.
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
The rock will skip across the pond.

noun

A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. 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.
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.

noun

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.
A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
A skip car.

verb

To place (an item) in a skip (large container for waste).

Origin

From Middle English skippen, skyppen, of North Germanic origin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skupjaną, perhaps related to *skeubaną (“to drive, push”), iterative *skuppōną (“to push/move repeatedly, skip”), from Proto-Indo-European *skewbʰ- (“to push, throw, shake”). Related to Icelandic skopa (“to take a run”), Old Swedish skuppa (“to skip”), modern dialectal Swedish skopa, skimpa (“to skip, leap”), and English shove. See also dialectal English skimp (“to mock”) (Etymology 1), considered by some to be related.

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