—skirt /skɜːt/ aep /skɝːt/
noun [C]
A1 a piece of clothing for women and girls that hangs from the waist and does not have legs:
» a long/short skirtSee picture: skirt 
Thesaurus+: ↑Skirts and kilts
F0 an outer covering or part to protect particular machines
Thesaurus+: ↑Machine parts• • •
Extra Examples:» The skirt fits tightly over the hips and flares just below the knees.» She was wearing a dreadful pink flouncy skirt.» She hiked up her skirt and climbed onto the bicycle.» a knee-length skirt» a gathered skirtverb [T, I + prep] (ALSO skirt around/round) ↑Verb Endings for skirt
F0 to go around the edge of something:
» Take the road which skirts (round) the village, not the one which goes through it.Thesaurus+: ↑Moving in order to avoid contact , ↑Digressing and being indirect or evasiveThesaurus+: ↑Edges and extremities of objects , ↑Surfaces of objectsF0 to avoid discussing a subject or problem, usually because there are difficulties that you do not want to deal with:
» Though the government has promised to deal with drug abuse, it has been accused of skirting round the issue.Thesaurus+: ↑Digressing and being indirect or evasive , ↑Moving in order to avoid contact , ↑Not saying much- dizziness
- dizzy
- dizzying
- dizzyingly
- DJ
- DM
- DMs
- DNA
- D-notice
- do
- doable
- do a bunk
- do a disappearing/vanishing act
- do a double take
- do a good/bad job
- do a good turn
- do (all) the donkey work
- do all the donkey work
- do a moonlight flit
- do a number on sb
- do a roaring trade
- do a runner
- do as you think best
- do as you would be done by
- do a ton