Skips
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:11 ptsWWF:12 pts5 letters
Definition of Skips
noun
verb
- 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."
- To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
"I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it."
noun
- A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).
- A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
- A skep, or basket.
- A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.
- (sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.
noun
- Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
- (specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.
- The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
- (bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.
- The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.
noun
- An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.
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