Definition of "skips" [skips]

• Plural form of skip. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skip. (verb)

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• "The name skips two generations, then picks back up with Browne's grandmother, her mother, then Browne one of six generations of teachers and now her 5-year-old daughter."
• "Sometimes, people say things that are so stupid your brain skips for a split second trying to make sense of it."
• "I look at the facts and the figures, and I see the dying wildlife and ecosystems, and I hear the idiotic things being said by BP, and my brain skips a beat."