[{"word":"skips","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Skywave propagation","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To move by hopping on alternate feet.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other."},{"definition":"To leap about lightly.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The rock will skip across the pond."},{"definition":"To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond."},{"definition":"To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (some item or stage).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it."},{"definition":"To place an item in a skip.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it."},{"definition":"To leave, especially in a sudden and covert manner.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"a customer who skipped town without paying her hotel bill"},{"definition":"To leap lightly over.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"to skip the rope"},{"definition":"To jump rope.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The girls were skipping in the playground."},{"definition":"(crocheting) To pass by a stitch as if it were not there, continuing with the next stitch.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["play hookie"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"A large open-topped container for waste, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to remove it along with its contents. (see also skep).","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A skep, or basket.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"A beehive.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":["dumpster"],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(specially) The captain of a sports team. Also, a form of address by the team to the captain.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"(bowls) The captain of a bowls team, who directs the team's tactics and rolls the side's last wood, so as to be able to retrieve a difficult situation if necessary.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"The scoutmaster of a troop of scouts (youth organization) and their form of address to him.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"partOfSpeech":"noun","definitions":[{"definition":"(college slang) A college servant.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skip","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skips"]}]