ALL meanings of skive
skive
S s - verb with object skive to split or cut, as leather, into layers or slices. 1
- verb with object skive to shave, as hides. 1
- verb with object skive to finish the turning of (a metal object) by feeding a tool against it tangentially. 1
- intransitive verb skive schoolchild: play truant 1
- intransitive verb skive employee: avoid work 1
- transitive verb skive cut slices off 1
- verb skive If you skive, you avoid working, especially by staying away from the place where you should be working. 0
- verb skive Skive off means the same as skive. 0
- verb skive to shave or remove the surface of (leather) 0
- verb skive to evade (work or responsibility) 0
- intransitive verb skive to avoid work by leaving; play truant 0
- verb transitive skive to slice off (leather, rubber, etc.) in thin layers; shave 0