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.

Verb

To pay (a debt, fine etc.).

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Enkindle all the sparks of nature / To quit this horrid act.

*(Edward Fairfax) (c.1580-1635)

*:that judge that quits each soul his hire

To repay (someone) for (something).

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*:I was but late att a Iustynge / and there I Iusted with a knyghte that is broder vnto kynge Pellam / and twyes smote I hym doune / & thenne he promysed to quyte me on my best frynde / and so he wounded my sone that can not be hole tyll I haue of that knyghtes blood

(obsolete) To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.).

*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:

*:Vnthankfull wretch (said he) is this the meed, / With which her soueraigne mercy thou doest quight ?

To conduct or acquit (oneself); to behave (in a specified way).

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*:Be strong and quit' yourselves like men, O ye Philistines, that ye be not servants unto the Hebrews, as they have been to you: ' quit yourselves like men, and fight.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Samson hath quit himself like Samson.

To carry through; to go through to the end.

*(Samuel Daniel) (1562-1619)

*:Never worthy prince a day did quit / With greater hazard and with more renown.

(label) To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

*(William Wake) (1657-1737)

*:To quit you of this fear, you have already looked Death in the face; what have you found so terrible in it?

(label) To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, etc.; to absolve; to acquit.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:God will relent, and quit thee all his debt.

(label) To abandon, renounce (a thing).

(label) To leave (a place).

To resign from (a job, office, position, etc.).

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To stop, give up (an activity) (usually + gerund or verbal noun).

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To close (an application).

(quit)