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skip out

skip out verb: to shirk; to avoid attending or to leave early, especially without permission.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic) To shirk; to avoid attending or to leave early, especially without permission.
    • He has a class on Thursday afternoons, but he skipped out this week.

Forms of skip out

third-person singular presentskips out
present participleskipping out
past participleskipped out
pastskipped out

Questions about skip out

What does skip out mean?
Skip out means to shirk; to avoid attending or to leave early, especially without permission.
What part of speech is skip out?
Skip out is a verb.
What is the past tense of skip out?
The past tense of skip out is skipped out.

Words near skip out in the dictionary

  1. skip hoists
  2. skip list
  3. skip lists
  4. skip lorries
  5. skip lorry
  6. skip out
  7. skip printing
  8. skip rope
  9. skip ropes
  10. skip school
  11. skip the line

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