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skips

skips is the plural of skip.

skips is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skip.

Meaning of skip

Noun

skip (plural skips)

  1. A leaping or jumping movement; the action of one who skips.
  2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.
    1. A trick allowing the player to proceed to a later section of the game without playing through a section that was intended to be mandatory.
  3. A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
  4. A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.
    • Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips.2012, Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond, page 19
  5. skywave propagation

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Phrases with skips

Questions about skips

What is skips the plural of?
Skips is the plural of skip.

Words near skips in the dictionary

  1. skipple
  2. skipples
  3. skippund
  4. skippunds
  5. skippy
  6. skips
  7. skips a beat
  8. skips out
  9. skips rope
  10. skips school
  11. skips the line

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