A Quick and Simple Dictionary

skip

1. Verb.  (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
2. Verb.  (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
3. Verb.  (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
4. Verb.  (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
5. Verb.  (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
6. Verb.  To place an item in a skip.
7. Verb.  (transitive, informal) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
8. Verb.  (transitive, informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
9. Verb.  To jump rope.
10. Noun.  A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
11. Noun.  (Australia) (British) An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.
12. Noun.  (mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
13. Noun.  Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
14. Noun.  (curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
15. Noun.  (Australia) (slang) An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent.