skirtnoun
uk/skɜːt/us/skɝːt/skirt noun (CLOTHING)
A1 [ C ] a piece of clothing for women and girls that hangs from the waist and does not have legs:
She wore a denim skirt and a white shirt.
a long/short skirt
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- 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 skirt
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Skirts & kilts
- A-line
- athleisure
- crinoline
- dhoti
- dirndl
- grass skirt
- hula skirt
- kilt
- loincloth
- lungi
- mini
- miniskirt
- pencil skirt
- puffball
- sarong
- tutu
skirt noun (ON MACHINE)
[ C ] an outer covering or part to protect particular machines
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Machines - parts
- ball bearing
- bearing
- clutch
- cog
- cogwheel
- hub
- inlet
- input
- jet
- lever
- manifold
- pedal
- rack and pinion
- ram
- ratchet
- soft key
- stepney
- timer
- vee belt
- wheel
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skirt noun (MEAT)
[ U ] also skirt steak beef (= meat from a cow) that is cut from the bottom part of the side of the animal:
There's an increasing market for the cheaper cuts of beef such as skirt.
Skirt steak is best medium-rare.
skirtverb [ T, I + prep ]
uk/skɜːt/us/skɝːt/also skirt around, UK also skirt roundto go around the edge of something:
Take the road which skirts (round) the town, not the one which goes through it.
to avoid discussing a subject or problem, usually because there are difficulties that you do not want to deal with:
The government has been accused of skirting round the issue of torture.
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Edges & extremities of objects
- apex
- apices
- bevel
- border
- bottom
- brim
- brow
- crest
- edge
- framed
- fringe
- front
- head
- palm-fringed
- peripheral
- periphery
- rim
- surmount
- tip
- vertex
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Digressing and being indirect or evasive