skive

Related to skive: skive off

skive (something)

To absent oneself or leave early from something (usually school or work) when one would normally be required to be there; to play truant. Primarily heard in UK. I was so restless and bored at work that I decided to just skive it after lunch without telling anyone. Hey, Jim and I are planning on skiving from school on Friday, do you want to come with us? That's the last time you skive class, mister! From now on, I'm dropping you to school every morning!
See also: skive

skive off

To absent oneself or leave early from school or work when one would normally be required to be there; to play truant. Primarily heard in UK. I was so restless and bored at work that I decided to just skive off after lunch without telling anyone. Hey, Jim and I are planning on skiving off from school on Friday, do you want to come with us? That's the last time you skive off class, mister! From now on, I'm dropping you off to school every morning!
See also: off, skive
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • bunk (something)
  • bunked
  • skive (something)
  • wag (it)
  • WAGs
  • jig (it)
  • sag off
  • bunk off
  • skive off
  • wag off
References in periodicals archive
The Idler's Skive Planner points out that if you take a sickie on a Monday, you are then faced with four consecutive days at work.
Event programmer Garth Jones says: "Skive Lounge is a great opportunity for young musicians from across Merseyside to find their feet, find fans and get their music out there.
Cushion extrusion with automatic skive bole filling (CTC) became an integrated part of many such delivered systems, while side wall application had been just an option.
Under the agreement Flextronics is to purchase Bang & Olufsen's assets in Skive for DKK96m.
The new hose is designed for use with MatchMate Plus fittings and, in most sizes, with skive fittings as well, Aeroquip said.
Supported by the National Foundation for Youth Music and Aviva Broker Community Fund, Skive Lounge offers live opportunities for emerging artists as well as open mic slots for those just venturing out.
The method includes the step of cutting through the gum portion of the elastomeric composite material at a desired skive angle, and then opening up the skived cut.
Chisholm thought national service was a skive? I take it he was not speaking from personal experience otherwise he would not have written such drivel.
Dantherm Holding said that in order to secure synergy gains from the merger all activities of the two subsidiaries would be concentrated to Dantherm HMS's current facilities in Skive, Denmark.
But the research, carried out by Crown Computing, also showed that more than half of people would be less likely to skive if their pay was being docked.
A SOLICITOR specialising in fraud forged a letter saying she had ovarian cancer to skive off work, a court heard yesterday.
n THE Friday Skive has started up again at The Masque Bar for the new year.
MOBILE phones could ruin a skive off work in the near future.
The contracts, valued at a total of approximately DKK5.50m, were received by Skive Taxa, Viborg Taxa, Falck, Thisted Taxa, Prebens Biler, Morso Taxiforening, Hedegaards Turistbiler, Midtthy Busfart, Sydthy Rute- og Turistfart and Ans Bussen.