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timeskip

timeskip noun: an instance of fast-forwarding a substantial amount of time, such as years or decades, as a narrative device in a story, quickly aging characters and developing events.

Noun

timeskip (plural timeskips)

  1. (slang) An instance of fast-forwarding a substantial amount of time, such as years or decades, as a narrative device in a story, quickly aging characters and developing events.
    • Akira Toriyama uses a timeskip to rejoin us with Gokū and friends in Dragon Ball Chapter 113, three years after Gokū leaves Uranai Baba's Palace for his global trek.2016, Derek Padula, Dragon Ball Culture Volume 5: Demons, Derek Padula, →ISBN, page 8
  2. Any case of something jumping ahead in time.
    • Now I got one "Corrupted"-file which I erased and the next song had a timeskip. Player just informed me "Skip" and jumped some 10-15 seconds forwards.2001 January 1, Aake Kinnunen, “Nomad 2 MG memory glitch?”, in creative.products.nomad (Usenet)

Forms of timeskip

pluraltimeskips

Origin of timeskip

From time + skip, cf. Japanese 時とばし (toki tobashi).

Questions about timeskip

What does timeskip mean?
Timeskip means an instance of fast-forwarding a substantial amount of time, such as years or decades, as a narrative device in a story, quickly aging characters and developing events.
What part of speech is timeskip?
Timeskip is a noun.
What is the plural of timeskip?
The plural of timeskip is timeskips.

Words near timeskip in the dictionary

  1. Timesian
  2. timesing
  3. timesink
  4. timesinks
  5. timesis
  6. timeskip
  7. timeskips
  8. timeslice
  9. timeslices
  10. timeslip
  11. timeslips

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