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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of skive.

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Examples

  • She skived off quite often, yet still managed to stay in the top stream for everything and, as she puts it, "got plenty of GCSEs, but left as soon as I could".

    Lauren Laverne: 'Let's face it, TV's not brain surgery' 2010

  • I was 18 years old the day my friends and I skived off college to go and cheer outside Downing Street at the vanquishing of the Conservatism we had -- in our tiny way, with our little wooden pencils -- helped to bring down.

    Johann Hari: What Will Britain Lose If Labour Is Defeated Today? 2010

  • I had skived, not bothered to shower, been careless with dropping catches, letting the ball fly past me.

    Archive 2009-05-01 David McDuff 2009

  • So the good news is that many Americans don't get skived out at Hispanics the same way they do at, for example, old people.

    Daniel Cubias: Are Hispanics Just Plain Dumb? Many of Us Think So 2009

  • After thejacket has been formed, the bullet's base is shaped into a boattail, and thenthe tip of the bullet is skived, or scored, to ensure that it will open asprogrammed.

    Three New Big-Game Bullets 2006

  • This video reminds me of when I was in the army in West Germany and me and Scouse and Haigy skived off and went to watch the Stranglers in Bonn, great days.

    Always The Sun. Rogue Gunner 2007

  • So we skived off to a café instead and spent the evening drinking coffee and talking about the possibility of life on other planets.

    Archive 2006-08-01 StyleyGeek 2006

  • Had a few mini-fantasies; revolving mostly around sliding into the seat next to him and suggesting we both skived off work and I took him home to do disgustingly delicious things to him.

    Lusts of the flesh kisobel 2004

  • It was a bit windy today so we had to lure them over to us first, and then we only got through a loaf and a quarter before they all skived off back to the warm, wherever that was.

    What I Did Today ailbhe 2005

  • Everyone apart from me, Becky & Amy skived after break because they're going into town but meh I don't feel like it now.

    fuct-up-girl Diary Entry fuct-up-girl 2004

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