Verb

1. To move by hopping on alternate feet.

   She will skip from one end of the sidewalk to the other.

2. To leap about lightly.
3. To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

   The rock will skip across the pond.

4. To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface.

   I bet I can skip this rock to the other side of the pond.

5. To omit or disregard (some item or stage).

   My heart will skip a beat.

   I will read most of the book, but skip the first chapter because the video covered it.

6. To place an item in a skip.
7. Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting).

   Yeah, I really should go to the quarterly meeting but I think I'm going to skip it.

8. To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.

Noun

1. A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.
2. An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep.
3. An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call "wogs"), not used by Anglo Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be used as such).

   2001: Effie: How did you find the second, the defacto, and what nationality is she?
   Barber: She is Australian.
   Effie: Is she? Gone for a skip. You little radical you.
   — Mary Coustas as her character Effie, TV series Effie: Just Quietly, 2001, episode Nearest and Dearest

4. The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks
5. Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship.
6. The elevator in a mine.