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Skirt
skəːt
Skirt definitions
noun
skirt
skirts
- a garment that fastens around the waist and hangs down around the legs, worn especially by women and girls
"I was wearing a knit sweater with a long skirt"
- the part of a coat or dress that hangs below the waist
"the skirt of the dress was made of a black silk fabric"
- an edge, border, or extreme part
- a surface that conceals or protects the wheels or underside of a vehicle or aircraft
- the curtain that hangs round the base of a hovercraft to contain the air cushion
- an animal's diaphragm and other membranes as food
"bits of beef skirt"
- a cut of meat from the lower flank
- women collectively regarded as objects of sexual desire
- a small flap on a saddle, covering the bar from which the stirrup leather hangs
verb
skirt
skirted
skirting
skirts
- go round or past the edge of
"he did not go through the city but skirted it"
- be situated along or around the edge of
"the fields that skirted the highway were full of cattle"
- go along or around (something) rather than directly through or across it
"the river valley skirts along the northern slopes of the hills"
- attempt to ignore; avoid dealing with
"they are both skirting the issue"