English Dictionary

SKIT

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does skit mean? 

SKIT (noun)
  The noun SKIT has 1 sense:

1. a short theatrical episodeplay

  Familiarity information: SKIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SKIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A short theatrical episode

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("skit" is a kind of...):

acting; performing; playacting; playing (the performance of a part or role in a drama)


 Context examples 


The Peri and the Pearl, a clever skit of a poem of two hundred lines, just finished, white hot from his brain, won the heart of the editor of a San Francisco magazine published in the interest of a great railroad.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)



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