"skips" in the noun sense
1. skip
a gait in which steps and hops alternate
2. omission, skip
a mistake resulting from neglect
"skips" in the verb sense
1. jump, pass over, skip, skip over
bypass
"He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible"
2. cut, skip
intentionally fail to attend
"cut class"
3. hop, skip, hop-skip
jump lightly
4. decamp, skip, vamoose
leave suddenly
"She persuaded him to decamp"
"skip town"
5. skip, bound off
bound off one point after another
6. skim, skip, skitter
cause to skip over a surface
"Skip a stone across the pond"
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