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skipping out

skipping out is the present participle and gerund of skip out.

Meaning of skip out

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.

Questions about skipping out

What is skipping out the present participle and gerund of?
Skipping out is the present participle and gerund of skip out.

Words near skipping out in the dictionary

  1. skippier
  2. skippiest
  3. skippin'
  4. skipping
  5. skipping a beat
  6. skipping out
  7. skipping rope
  8. skipping ropes
  9. skipping school
  10. skipping song
  11. skipping the line

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skipping out (page history and authors); skip out (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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