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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To move by hopping on one foot and then the other.
2. v. To leap lightly about.
3. v. To bounce over or be deflected from a surface; skim or ricochet.
4. v. To pass from point to point, omitting or disregarding what intervenes: skipped through the list hurriedly; skipping over the dull passages in the novel.
5. v. To be promoted in school beyond the next regular class or grade.
6. v. Informal To leave hastily; abscond: skipped out of town.
7. v. To misfire. Used of an engine.
8. v. To leap or jump lightly over: skip rope.
9. v. To pass over without mentioning; omit: skipped the minor details of the story.
10. v. To miss or omit as one in a series: My heart skipped a beat.
11. v. To cause to bounce lightly over a surface; skim.
12. v. To be promoted beyond (the next grade or level).
13. v. Informal To leave hastily: The fugitive skipped town.
14. v. Informal To fail to attend: We skipped science class again.
15. n. A leaping or jumping movement, especially a gait in which hops and steps alternate.
16. n. An act of passing over something; an omission.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To move suddenly or hastily (in a specified direction); go with a leap or spring; bound; dart.
2. To take light, dancing steps; leap about, as in sport; jump lightly; caper; frisk; specifically, to skip the rope (see below).
3. To make sudden changes with omissions; especially, to change about in an arbitrary manner: as, to skip about in one's reading.
4. To pass without notice; make omission, as of certain passages in reading or writing: often followed by over.
5. To take one's self off hurriedly; make off: as, he collected the money and skipped.
6. In music, to pass or progress from any tone to a tone more than one degree distant from it. Synonyms and Skip, Trip, Hop, Leap, Bound, Spring, Jump, Vault. Skipping is more than tripping and less than leaping, bounding, springing, or jumping; like tripping, it implies 1ightness of spirits or joy. It is about equal to hopping, but hopping is rather heavy and generally upon one foot or with the feet together, while skipping uses the feet separately or one after the other. A hop is shorter than a jump, and a jump than a leap: as, the hop of a toad; the jump of a frog; the leap of a marsh-frog; a jump from a fence; a leap from a second-story window. Skip, trip, bound, and spring imply elasticity; bound, spring, leap, and vault imply vigorous activity. Vault implies that one has something on which to rest one or both hands; vaulting is either upon or over something, as a horse, a fence, and therefore is largely an upward movement; the other movements may be chiefly horizontal.
7. To leap over; cross with a skip or bound.
8. To pass over without action or notice; disregard; pass by.
9. To cause to skip or bound; specifically, to throw (a missile) so as to cause it to make a series of leaps along a surface.
10. n. A leap; a spring; a bound.
11. n. A passing over or disregarding; an omission; specifically, in music, a melodic progression from any tone to a tone more than one degree distant. Also called salto.
12. n. That which is skipped; anything which is passed over or disregarded.
13. n. In the games of bowls and curling, the player who acts as captain, leader, or director of a side or team, and who usually plays the last bowl or stone which his team has to play. Also called skipper.
14. n. A college servant; a scout.
15. n. In sugar-making, the amount or charge of syrup in the pans at one time.
16. n. In mining, an iron box for raising ore, differing from the kibble in that it runs between guides, while the kibble hangs free. In metal-mines the name is sometimes given to the box when it has wheels and runs on rails.
17. n. In poker, a straight in which the cards are alternate, such as 2, 4, 6, 8, 10: when played, it beats two pairs.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To move by hopping on alternate feet.
2. v. intransitive To leap about lightly.
3. v. intransitive To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
4. v. transitive To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
5. v. transitive To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
6. v. To place an item in a skip.
7. v. transitive, informal Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
8. v. transitive, informal To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.
9. v. To jump rope.
10. n. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
11. n. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
12. n. music A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
13. n. Australia, New Zealand, UK 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.
14. n. mining A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.
15. n. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.
16. n. curling The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.
17. n. Australia, slang An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot. A basket. See skep.
2. n. A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.
3. n. (Mining) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock.
4. n. (Sugar Manuf.) A charge of sirup in the pans.
5. n. A beehive; a skep.
6. v. To leap lightly; to move in leaps and hounds; -- commonly implying a sportive spirit.
7. v. Fig.: To leave matters unnoticed, as in reading, speaking, or writing; to pass by, or overlook, portions of a thing; -- often followed by over.
8. v. To leap lightly over.
9. v. To pass over or by without notice; to omit; to miss.
10. v. colloq. To cause to skip.
11. n. A light leap or bound.
12. n. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
13. n. (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. jump lightly
2. n. a gait in which steps and hops alternate
3. v. cause to skip over a surface
4. n. a mistake resulting from neglect
5. v. bypass.
6. v. leave suddenly
7. v. bound off one point after another
8. v. intentionally fail to attend