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Skip mackerel

Skip \Skip\, n.

  1. A light leap or bound.

  2. The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part.

  3. (Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once.
    --Busby.

    Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.]
    --Swift.

    Skip mackerel. (Zo["o]l.) See Bluefish, 1.