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1. Bypass
   "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"; "He skipped over a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
   - jump, pass over, skip over
    
2. Intentionally fail to attend
   "skip class"
   - cut
    
3. Jump lightly
   - hop, hop-skip
    
4. Leave suddenly
   "skip town"
   - decamp, vamoose
    
5. Bound off one point after another
   - bound off
    
6. Cause to move quickly over a surface with small jumps
   "Skip a stone across the pond"
   - skim, skitter

1. A gait in which steps and hops alternate
    
2. A mistake resulting from neglect
   - omission
    
3. [Brit] A container designed to receive and transport and dump waste
   - Dumpster [N. Amer]

Derived forms: skips, skipping, skipped

See also: skipper

Type of: bounce, bound, container, drop, error, fault, gait, go away, go forth, jump, leap, leave, leave out, miss, mistake, neglect, omit, overleap, overlook, pretermit, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop, throw

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