skip out
To shirk; to avoid attending or to leave early, especially without permission.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
“He decided to skip out on the boring meeting early.”
“The students tried to skip out on the lecture, but the professor noticed them leaving through the back door.”
“Despite his professional obligations, he chose to skip out on the gala, preferring the quiet solitude of his study to the tedious social expectations of the evening.”
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skip a beat
To momentarily falter.
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skip rope
To jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.
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three skips of a louse
The worth of some trifling or insignificant matter; a whit or jot of value.
Last updated August 10, 2026