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skip town

skip town verb: to abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning.

Verb

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

  1. (informal) To abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning.
    • The suspect skipped town when he found out the police were going to raid his apartment.
    • We have just seen a feckless House of Representatives pass a ludicrous impeachment of a Cabinet secretary by one vote—and then skip town while avoiding a vote on aid to Ukraine.2024 February 20, Eliot A. Cohen, “Solzhenitsyn’s Warning”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 21 Feb 2024

Forms of skip town

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

Questions about skip town

What does skip town mean?
Skip town means to abscond from one's place of residence suddenly, without warning.
What part of speech is skip town?
Skip town is a verb.
What is the past tense of skip town?
The past tense of skip town is skipped town.

Words near skip town in the dictionary

  1. skip printing
  2. skip rope
  3. skip ropes
  4. skip school
  5. skip the line
  6. skip town
  7. skip tracer
  8. skip tracers
  9. skip tracing
  10. skip-care
  11. skip-gram

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