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timeskips

timeskips is the plural of timeskip.

Meaning of timeskip

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)

Questions about timeskips

What is timeskips the plural of?
Timeskips is the plural of timeskip.

Words near timeskips in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: timeskips (page history and authors); timeskip (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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