Skip

skip, v. [skipped (skint), -ping.] To leap, bound, spring as a goat or lamb; to pa without notice, make omi ions, — v. To pa over or by, omit, mi , leap over. — n. A leap; bound; spring; act of pa ing over an interval from one thing to another; an omi ion of a part. [Ir. sgiob, to snatch, Ga. sgiob, to start suddenly, snatch at a thing, sgob, to pluck, bite, twitch, Skr. kship, to throw, impel, — kshipra, quick. Ic. skoppa, to spin like a top.] Skip'per, n. A dancer; the cheese maggot; a kind of fish. — Skip'-jack, n. An upstart. (Entom.) One of a family of coleopterous insects remarkable for leaping to a considerable height when placed upon their backs. (Ichth.) The name of several kinds of fish, esp. the blue-fish. — Skip'ping-rope, n. A small rope used by children in skipping, or leaping up and down.