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hit-skip

hit-skip verb: to flee (as the driver) from the site of a motor vehicle accident without reporting it to the police or emergency services.

Verb

hit-skip (third-person singular simple present hit-skips, present participle hit-skipping, simple past and past participle hit-skipped)

  1. (intransitive, rare) To flee (as the driver) from the site of a motor vehicle accident without reporting it to the police or emergency services.
    • […] hit-skipping, speeding, driving while intoxicated, crashing red lights, driving the wrong way on one-way streets […]1962, Traffic Safety, volumes 60-61, page 26
    Synonyms:
    hit and run

Synonyms of hit-skip

Forms of hit-skip

third-person singular presenthit-skips
present participlehit-skipping
past participlehit-skipped
pasthit-skipped

Questions about hit-skip

What does hit-skip mean?
Hit-skip means to flee (as the driver) from the site of a motor vehicle accident without reporting it to the police or emergency services.
What part of speech is hit-skip?
Hit-skip is a verb.
What is the past tense of hit-skip?
The past tense of hit-skip is hit-skipped.

Words near hit-skip in the dictionary

  1. hit-paraders
  2. hit-piece
  3. hit-pieces
  4. hit-run
  5. hit-runs
  6. hit-skip
  7. hit-skipped
  8. hit-skipping
  9. hit-skips
  10. hit-stun
  11. hit-up

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