skip
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
“I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.”
Noun 4 meanings
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 passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
Etymology
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”).
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SKIP at a glance
SKIP has 4 letters and scores 10 points in Scrabble (S 1 + K 5 + I 1 + P 3) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #4,992 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with skip
All rhymes- LANDSKIP15
- LANTSKIP14
- OVERSKIP17
- TOWNSKIP17
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