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What does skip mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word skip? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
  2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
  3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
  4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
  5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
  6. To place an item in a skip.
  7. (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
  8. (transitive, informal) To leave
  9. To leap lightly over.
  10. To jump rope.
Noun
  1. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
  2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
  3. (music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
  4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
  5. (radio) skywave propagation
Noun
  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents (see also skep).
  2. (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
  3. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.
  4. A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
  5. (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
  6. A beehive.
Noun
  1. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
  2. (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
Noun
  1. (Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
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