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词组 skirt
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skirt
Theme: WOMAN
n. a woman.
Some skirt comes up to me and asks where the police station is.Who's the skirt I saw you with last night?
skirt
noun a woman or women objectified sexually. In conventional English usage until the late C19 when Victorians deemed it slang; not necessarily pejorative or contemptuous, however various compounds, some now obsolete, objectify women: 'a light skirt' (a loose woman), a BIT OF SKIRT or 'piece of skirt' (a woman as sex object), 'flutter a skirt' (to be a harlot) 'run a skirt' (to keep a mistress) and 'the skirt' (women, collectively) UK, 1899
idiomskirt sb's bit of skirt/fluff/crumpet
phraseskirt[skirted, skirted, skirting]
skirt around 1. skirt around/round sth to avoid an important or difficult problem, subject etc: Johnston skirts around questions about his private life, preferring to focus on promoting his latest film. If you continue to skirt round the problem, it will just get worse. SIMILAR TO: skate around/over, evade2. skirt around/round sth to go around the outside edge of a place: We skirted around the town, to avoid getting caught in traffic.

skirt chaser

Someone, typically a man, who very actively, persistently, and/or aggressively pursues sexual relations with women. After my brother's girlfriend broke up with him, he started drinking heavily and turned into quite a skirt chaser.

bit of skirt

1. A physically attractive woman. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. Jack knew he was the envy of all of his friends as he paraded around town with his new bit of skirt.
2. A derogatory term used to describe a woman who lacks value beyond being physically attractive. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. I can't believe my ex-boyfriend went out with that bit of skirt!

upskirt

A video or photo that has been taken with the camera aimed up a woman's skirt, often secretly and without her consent. I'll make sure that the man responsible for this disgusting upskirt video is sued.

skirt around (someone or something)

1. To lie around the edge of something. The small creek skirting around the edge of our property has always been a source of fascination to our kids. The proposed highway will skirt around the city to ease the pressure of rush-hour commuters.
2. To move around someone or something so as to avoid or evade them or it. The pilots changed course in order to skirt around the storm. I skirted around the security guard when his back was turned and made my way into the building.
3. To avoid or evade some issue or topic, as by circumlocution. He always skirts around the issue whenever I bring up pay raises for the people on my team. When asked about his role in the scandal, the CEO skirted around the issue with a longwinded non sequitur about his loyalty to his company and its customers.

skirt around someone or something

Fig. to move around and avoid someone or something. (something can be a topic of conversation.) We talked the whole evening and managed to skirt around Fred. We had to skirt around the subject.

skirt

n. a woman. Some skirt comes up to me and asks where the police station is.
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