skip verb▶ skip it to forget it; to drop the subject; to dispense with something US,1934 Often used as an imperative.
The government defended the GCSE today after the head of its exams watchdog said pupils should be able to skip it if schools believed it was a waste of time. — TheGuardian, 11 August 2003
▶ skip on to leave US
— Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A.Slang, p. 77, 1989
▶ skip the cinders; skip the ties to walk along a railway track US
— Ramon Adams, TheLanguageoftheRailroader, p. 139, 1977