Word.ws English Dictionary

skips town

skips town is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 skips town

What is skips town the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Skips town is the third-person singular simple present indicative of skip town.

Words near skips town in the dictionary

  1. skips a beat
  2. skips out
  3. skips rope
  4. skips school
  5. skips the line
  6. skips town
  7. skipsful
  8. skipt
  9. Skipton
  10. Skipton-on-Swale
  11. Skiptons

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: skips 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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “skips town.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/skips_town. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.