—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- root about/around
- root about/around (somewhere)
- root about/around somewhere
- root and branch
- root beer
- rootbound
- root cellar
- root crop
- rooted to the spot
- root for sb
- rootless
- rootlessness
- roots
- root sth out/up
- root sth/sb out
- rootstock
- rope
- rope bridge
- rope ladder
- rope sb in
- rope sth/somewhere off
- ropey
- ropy
- Rorschach test
- rort