What is "skit"

Usage examples of "skit".

This was only the beginning of an increasingly fierce exchange between these two major figures which, a year later, would culminate in a brilliant burst of parodistic dialogue skits on both sides.

But at the same time the McGill postcard -- and this applies to all other postcards in this genre -- is not intended as pornography but, a subtler thing, as a skit on pornography.

Rachel stepped out of her skits and hoop, then yanked her corset higher, so that her breasts were within its confine.

There were pulls in too many directions if Meg skitted out on this one.

There had been very little time between the end of the clowning skit and the death of Francis Sayesva in the room where he had gone to remove his costume.

A comic skit, really, with quick changes, slapstick, clown faces, and japery, lasting twenty minutes when I was really rolling.

But to be a meetinger, you must go to chapel in all winds and weathers, and make yerself as frantic as a skit.

We did a skit on that: used your profile on a sow's merkin, it's the only coverage you rate—"

It was from a skit his sister's class had performed for National Day a year ago.

It was a joking skit lacking a punch line, though the cues for laughter were right there on the page: CUE LAUGH.

There were other theaters, too, the stepchildren of the glittering palaces around the corner, our modern equivalents of vaudeville and burlesque, revues and skit houses and stand-up comedy stages.

That was the title of a popular song in Harlem that had originated with two blackface comedians on the Apollo theatre stage doing a skit about a colored brother coming home drunk and trying to get Richard to let him into the house.