skip out
To shirk; to avoid attending or to leave early, especially without permission.
He has a class on Thursday afternoons, but he skipped out this week.
skip
/skɪp/
noun 18verb 6name 1
Collocations
4(verb.)
ADV
lightly, nimbly | happily | along
PREP
down, up
The children skipped down the path toward the playground after school.
Definitions
verb
1
To move by hopping on alternate feet.
She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
2
To leap about lightly.
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
3
To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
The rock will skip across the pond.
After Essien's poor attempt flew into the stands, Rodrigo Moreno - Bolton's on-loan winger from Benfica who was making his full Premier League debut - nearly exposed the Blues with a lovely ball for Johan Elmander, but it just skipped away from his team-mate's toes.
4
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.
5
To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
My heart will skip a beat.
He skipped the second question and moved on.
noun
1
A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
2
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
3
The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
4
A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
5
A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
noun
1
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.
2
A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.
3
A skip car.
4
A skep, or basket, such as a creel or a handbasket.
In a panic he pushed the prostesting Catweazle inside an empty clothes skip and sat down on the lid just as his father and Sam came in.
5
A wheeled basket chiefly used in textile factories.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
skip rope
To jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.
skip a beat
To miss a beat.
Example Bank
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She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
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The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
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So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically.
Wiktionary04
Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.
Wiktionary05
Beside it was a great engine which worked a continuous steel rope on which the skips were fastened which drew up the débris by successive stages from the bottom of the shaft.
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In a panic he pushed the prostesting Catweazle inside an empty clothes skip and sat down on the lid just as his father and Sam came in.
WiktionaryUsage Notes
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In some senses, skip is marked as informal, slang, UK, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
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