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skipped town

skipped town is the simple past and past participle of skip town.

Meaning of skip town

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.

Questions about skipped town

What is skipped town the simple past and past participle of?
Skipped town is the simple past and past participle of skip town.

Words near skipped town in the dictionary

  1. skipped a beat
  2. skipped out
  3. skipped rope
  4. skipped school
  5. skipped the line
  6. skipped town
  7. skippedst
  8. skippenite
  9. skipper
  10. skipper-bird
  11. skipper-birds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skipped town (page history and authors); skip town (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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