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Verb: skive  skIv
  1. Remove the surface of
    "skive leather"
     
  2. [Brit, informal] Be absent from work or school without permission
    "The boy often skives";
    - bunk off [Brit, informal], play hooky [N. Amer, informal], bunk [Brit, informal], mitch [Ireland, informal], truant, wag [Austral, NZ, informal], play truant
Noun: skive  skIv
Usage: Brit, informal (N. Amer: truancy)
  1. Failure to attend (especially school)
    - truancy, hooky [N. Amer, informal], hookey [N. Amer]

Derived forms: skived, skiving, skives

Type of: cut, nonattendance, shave, skip

Encyclopedia: Skive, Denmark

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