Skip vs Buck - What's the difference?

Skip is a related term of buck.

As verbs the difference between skip and buck

is that skip is to move by hopping on alternate feet while buck is .

As a noun skip

is a leaping, jumping or skipping movement or skip can be (australia|new zealand|british) a large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents; called a dumpster in north america (where "skip" is completely unknown and incomprehensible) see also skep or skip can be short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority or skip can be (australia|slang) an australian of anglo-celtic descent.

skip

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), of (etyl) origin, ultimately from (etyl) .

Verb

(skipp)

To move by hopping on alternate feet.

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

To leap about lightly.

* Alexander Pope

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, / Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

So she drew her mother away skipping , dancing, and frisking fantastically.

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To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface.

The rock will skip across the pond.

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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.

To disregard, miss or omit part of a continuation (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.

* Bishop Burnet

They who have a mind to see the issue may skip these two chapters.

To place an item in a skip.

(informal) 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.

(informal) To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.

* 1998 ,

I see ya' little speed boat head up our coast

She really want to ''skip town

Get back off me, beast off me

Get back you flea infested mongrel

To leap lightly over.

to skip the rope

To jump rope.

The girls were skipping in the playground.

Synonyms

* (sense) (US) play hookie

Noun

(en noun)

A leaping, jumping or skipping movement.

The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

(music) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.

(Busby)

A person who attempts to disappear so as not to be found.

* 2012 , Susan Nash, Skip Tracing Basics and Beyond (page 19)

Tracking down debtors is a big part of a skip tracer's job. That's the case because deadbeats who haven't paid their bills and have disappeared are the most common type of skips .

Derived terms

* skipping rope

Etymology 2

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, New Zealand, British) A large open-topped rubbish bin, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents; called a dumpster in North America (where "skip" is completely unknown and incomprehensible). See also skep.

(mining) A transportation container in a mine, usually for ore or mullock.

(UK, Scotland, dialect) A skep, or basket.

A wheeled basket used in cotton factories.

(sugar manufacture) A charge of syrup in the pans.

A beehive.

Synonyms

* (open-topped rubbish bin) dumpster

Etymology 3

Noun

(en noun)

Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship, or other person in authority.

(curling) The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks.

Etymology 4

A reference to the television series ; coined and used by Australians (particularly children) of non-British descent to counter derogatory terms aimed at them. Australian National Dictionary Centre » Home » Australian words » Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms » S

Alternative forms

* skippy

Noun

(en noun)

(Australia, slang) An Australian of Anglo-Celtic descent.

* 2001 , ), Effie: Just Quietly'' (TV series), Episode: ''Nearest and Dearest ,

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.

References

Anagrams

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buck

English

(wikipedia buck)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (buc), bucke, bukke, from (etyl) buc, bucc, ). Sense 6 is from mid 19th century, but of unknown origin.

Noun

(en noun)

A male deer, antelope, sheep, goat, rabbit, hare, and sometimes the male of other animals such as the ferret and shad.

(US) An uncastrated sheep, a ram.

A young buck; an adventurous, impetuous, dashing, or high-spirited young man.

(British, obsolete) A fop or dandy.

* 1808 , (editor), The Connoisseur'', ''The British Essayists , Volume 32, page 93,

This pusillanimous creature thinks himself, and would be thought, a buck .

* 1825 , , I Zingari'', ''The English in Italy , Volume II, page 153,

The Captain was then a buck and dandy, during the reign of those two successive dynasties, of the first rank of the second order ; the characteristic of which very respectable rank of fashionables I hold to be, that their spurs impinge upon the pavement oftener than upon the sides of a horse.

(US, dated, derogatory) A black or Native American man.

(US, Australia, NZ, informal) A dollar (one hundred cents).

Can I borrow five bucks ?

(South Africa, informal) A rand (currency unit).

(by extension, Australia, South Africa, US, informal) Money

Corporations will do anything to make a buck

(US, slang) One hundred.

The police caught me driving a buck -forty on the freeway.

That skinny guy? C'mon, he can't weigh more than a buck and a quarter.

(dated) An object of various types, placed on a table to indicate turn or status; such as a brass object, placed in rotation on a US Navy wardroom dining table to indicate which officer is to be served first, or an item passed around a poker table indicating the dealer or placed in the pot to remind the winner of some privilege or obligation when his or her turn to deal next comes.

(US, in certain metaphors or phrases) Blame; responsibility; scapegoating; finger-pointing.

pass the buck''; ''the buck stops here

(UK, dialect) The body of a post mill]], particularly in . See Wikipedia:[[w:Mill_machinery#Windmill_machinery, Windmill machinery.

(finance, jargon) One million dollars.

(informal) A euro

A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.

Synonyms

* (male deer) stag * (male goat) billygoat, billy, buckling, buck-goat, he-goat * (male ferret) hob, hob-ferret * (ram) ram, tup * bill, bone, clam, cucumber, dead president, greenback, note, one-spot, paper, simoleon, single, smackeroo * (item that indicates dealer in poker) button, dealer button

Derived terms

* buckskin * crossbuck * young buck * pass the buck, buck-passing, the buck stops here * sawbuck (not descended from buck , but clearly influenced by) * buck naked (origin uncertain)

Verb

(en verb)

To copulate, as bucks and does.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) . See above. Compare (bow).

Verb

(en verb)

To bend; buckle.

To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack.

* 1849 , Jackey Jackey, The Statement of the Aboriginal Native Jackey Jackey, who Accompanied Mr. Kennedy'', William Carron, ''Narrative of an Expedition Undertaken Under the Direction of the Late Mr. Assistant Surveyor E. B. Kennedy , 2004 Gutenberg Australia eBook #0201121,

At the same time we got speared, the horses got speared too, and jumped and bucked all about, and got into the swamp.

To throw (a rider or pack) by bucking.

* W. E. Norris

The brute that he was riding had nearly bucked him out of the saddle.

(military) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists of tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.

(by extension) To resist obstinately; oppose or object strongly.

The vice president bucked at the board's latest solution.

(by extension) To move or operate in a sharp, jerking, or uneven manner.

The motor bucked and sputtered before dying completely.

(by extension) To overcome or shed (, an impediment or expectation), in pursuit of a goal; to force a way through despite (an obstacle); to resist or proceed against.

The plane bucked a strong headwind.

Our managers have to learn to buck the trend and do the right thing for their employees.

John is really bucking the odds on that risky business venture. He's doing quite well.

(riveting) To press a reinforcing device (bucking bar) against (the force of a rivet) in order to absorb vibration and increase expansion. See Wikipedia: .

(forestry) To saw a tree into shorter lengths, as for firewood.

Derived terms

* bucker * buck up * buck for * bucking bronco * buck the trend

Etymology 3

See beech.

Noun

(en noun)

(Scotland) The beech tree.

(Johnson)

Derived terms

* buckmast, buck-mast

Etymology 4

Noun

lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed

The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.

(Shakespeare)

Verb

(en verb)

To soak, steep or boil in lye or suds, as part of the bleaching process.

To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.

(mining) To break up or pulverize, as ores.

(Webster 1913)