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skip
noun- a skipper (a captain, a leader, etc.) UK, 1830
- Skips toss for jack. — David Bryant, The Game of Bowls, p. 71, 1990
- The Canadian film Men With Brooms, about a local curling team, is due to be released in Canada next month. Starring Naked Gun actor Leslie Nielsen as a small-town team skip, it has been described as “Rocky on ice”. — The Guardian, 22 February 2002
- a coach; used as a term of address for a coach US
A shortened form of SKIPPER- Also, instead of calling Joe Schultz Joe I’m calling him Skip, which is what I called Ralph Houk when I first came up. Managers like to be called Skip. — Jim Bouton, Ball Four, p. 71, 1970
- a uniformed police sergeant UK
An abbreviation of SKIPPER - Uniformed sergeants are “Skip” or “Sarge”, or it’s first name terms. — Duncan MacLaughlin, The Filth, p. 82, 2002
- an Anglo-Australian AUSTRALIA
From Skip, shortening of Skippy, the name of the kangaroo star of the children’s television programme Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo. - The badly-maligned “Wogs” (Dapto dogs/Chocolate frogs) are finally wreaking revenge on Anglo-Saxon kids. “Aussies” are “Skips” or “Joeys”. — Sydney Morning Herald, p. 7, 3 January 1987
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