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To skim over the water at high speed rather than push through it. When a vessel underway rises in the water due to the dynamic forces of motion.
Grafting by skimming profits off the top
a shilling (1/-) and earlier, mid-late 1800s a pound or a sovereign. According to Cassells chip meaning a shilling is from horse-racing and betting. Chip was also slang for an Indian rupee. The association with a gambling chip is logical. Chip and chipping also have more general associations with money and particularly money-related crime, where the derivations become blurred with other underworld meanings of chip relating to sex and women (perhaps from the French 'chipie' meaning a vivacious woman) and narcotics (in which chip refers to diluting or skimming from a consignment, as in chipping off a small piece - of the drug or the profit). Chipping-in also means to contributing towards or paying towards something, which again relates to the gambling chip use and metaphor, i.e. putting chips into the centre of the table being necessary to continue playing.
Noun. A stone, usually flat, used for skimming on water. [Dialect? Mainly Midlands use]
Skimming is slang for taking money illegally.Skimming is British slang for illegally taking credit card details by passing the card through a reader.
making flat stones skim on the surface of the water
Cowboy job is espionage slang for an unauthorised scheme.Cowboy job is British slang for badly done or skimped workmanship.
Noun. Skimpy shorts that 'ride' up to expose the wearers bottom ('batty') cheeks, usually female attire. [West Indies/Black UK?]
Hairstyle where all the hair is brought together in a fan at the top of one's head without shaving the sides (usually a mohawk is where u shave all of your head with the exception of a 2 inch strip of hair in the center reaching from the front of the head to the back of the hair-line). Usually worn by people who are wanna-be's (aka poseurs) who are too afraid to do the real thing so they skimp on the shave
Skimmed Milk
A submariner's description of a surface ship, or officers/crew of same.
Skim is American slang for conceal or divert part of one's income to avoid paying tax.
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Any species of longwinged marine birds of the genus Rhynchops, allied to the terns, but having the lower mandible compressed and much longer than the upper one. These birds fly rapidly along the surface of the water, with the lower mandible immersed, thus skimming out small fishes. The American species (R. nigra) is common on the southern coasts of the United States. Called also scissorbill, and shearbill.
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A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.
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Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.
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One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.
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See Skimmington.
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See Skimmer.
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A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England.
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v. t.
To take off by skimming; as, to skim cream.
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A slice; a skimmer; a spatula; a pudding stick.
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Any one of several large bivalve shells, sometimes used for skimming milk, as the sea clams, and large scallops.
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See Skimmington.
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In a skimming manner.
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The act of one who skims.
v. t.
To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
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That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.
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Fig.: To read or examine superficially and rapidly, in order to cull the principal facts or thoughts; as, to skim a book or a newspaper.
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