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'' On the steal, we had a little discussion on the shot - either draw one in and sit two or try an easy two-foot runback and sit four in the 12-foot, and if the skip is a little nervous about it, he might put it through like he did. ''

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  1. intransitive verb To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.
  2. intransitive verb To leap lightly about.
  3. intransitive verb To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet.
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  • Ninety percent of the time they know where the skip is and help me catch him. —  Four To Score
  • If this is a part that you would rather skip, there are ready made cardboard magazine files that you can buy and still make them custom by choosing your own paper / bookcloth to wrap them with. —  Apartment Therapy Main
  • The more you skip, the more effective Warrior you become. vote, you morons! —  Ace of Spades HQ
  • British cars like the Allegro and the Morris Marina, once memorably described as a skip on wheels, have come to embody the national humiliation of that benighted era. —  The Guardian World News
  • You may not know that your iPod keeps track of songs you skip, adding them to a Skip Count tag, just like your Play Count tag. —  iPod Product Center
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English skippen, perhaps of Scandinavian origin.

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  1. from Middle English skippen, skyppen. Origin uncertain: (a) according to Skeat, from Irish sgiob, snatch (found in past participle sgiobtha, snatched away, sgiob, a snatch, grasp), =Gaelic sgiab, start or move suddenly, snatch or pull at anything, =W. ysgipio, snatch away; (b) less prob. connected with Icelandic skopa, run, skoppa, spin like a top.
  2. from skip, v.
  3. A variant of skep, q. v.
 

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