skipped

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To move by hopping on alternate feet.
   • She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.
2. (intransitive) To leap about lightly.
   • The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC
3. (intransitive) To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.
   • The rock will skip across the pond.
4. (transitive) To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.
   • I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.
5. (transitive) To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).
   • My heart will skip a beat.
6. (informal, transitive) Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).
   • Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

   Synonyms:

   play hooky

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