Difference between Skip and Vamoose

What is the difference between Skip and Vamoose?

Skip as a verb is to move by hopping on alternate feet. while Vamoose as a verb is to run away, to flee.

Skip

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move by hopping on alternate feet. To leap about lightly. To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. To throw (something), making it skim, ricochet, or bounce over a surface. To omit or disregard (some item or stage). To place an item in a skip. Not to attend (some event, especially a class or a meeting). To leave; as, to skip town, to skip the country.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A leaping, jumping or skipping movement. An open-topped rubbish bin, ranging in size from perhaps 1.5x1.5 metres up to 6x3 metres, designed to be lifted onto the back of a truck to take away both bin and contents. See also skep. An Australian person of Anglo-Celtic descent. Used by people of southern European descent (those who the "skips" in turn call "wogs"), not used by Anglo Australians themselves. Usually taken to be from Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and not of itself insulting (though might be used as such). The player who calls the shots and traditionally throws the last two rocks Short for skipper, the master or captain of a ship. The elevator in a mine.

Example sentence: You've got to set yourself up to be as healthy as you can. The thing we tend to do is when it gets to be a bit too hard, we actually opt out for the absolute worst option. For example, if you're in a rush in a morning and you feel like you don't have time to make breakfast, you skip it.

Vamoose

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To run away, to flee.To hurry.

We hope you now know whether to use Skip or Vamoose in your sentence.

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