skying

Verb

sky (third-person singular simple present skies, present participle skying, simple past and past participle skied or skyed)

1. (informal, transitive) To drink (a beverage) from a container without one's lips touching the container.
2. (dated, informal, transitive) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot easily be seen; (by extension) to put (something) in an undesirable place.
   • The artists—I mean the younger brood, and not the Brother Academicians who "skied" his pictures—were the first and the most enthusiastic in his [George Fuller's] praise.1883 December, M[ariana] G[riswold] Van Rensselaer, “George Fuller”, in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume V (New Series; volume XXVII overall), number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century...

   Antonyms:

   floor

3. (dated, slang, transitive) To toss (something) upwards; specifically, to flip (a coin).
   • In ‘skying’ a coin for the purpose of deciding a point at issue between two parties, two methods are in vogue: there is either the ‘slow torture’ of spinning the coin thrice, the decision to go against the tosser-up, if the other party, twice out of the three times, guesses right on which side the...1894, C[ornelis] Stoffel, “Preface”, in Studies in English, Written and Spoken: For the Use of Continental Students (First Series), Zutphen, Gelderland, Netherlands: W. J. Thieme & Co.; London: Luzac...
4. (transitive) To clear (a high jump bar, hurdle, etc.) by a large margin.
5. (transitive) To hit, kick, or throw (a ball) extremely high.
   • Hernandez [i.e., Félix Hernández] walked the bases loaded, then fell behind 3–1 in the count to Bobby Abreu, who then skied the next pitch to left for a sacrifice fly.2009 September 8, Geoff Baker, “Seattle Mariners at Los Angeles Angels: 09/08 game thread”, in The Seattle Times, Seattle, Wash.: The Seattle Times Company, published 29 November 2012, →ISSN, →OCLC...
6. (transitive) To miss a goal by kicking the ball over the crossbar.
   • He laid on the two best chances, both wasted by Pratt, who skied one and stubbed his toe on the other.1977, Tom Stoppard, 42:41 from the start, in Professional Foul

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