skirt: meaning and definitions
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The part of a garment, such as a dress or coat, that hangs freely from the waist down.
A garment hanging from the waist and worn by women and girls.
A part or attachment resembling the skirt of a garment, especially:
One of the leather flaps hanging from the side of a saddle.
The lower outer section of a rocket vehicle.
A flexible strip hanging from the base of an air-cushion vehicle.
A piece of fabric that extends over or beyond something to afford protection.
An outer edge; a border or margin: a base camp on the skirt of the mountain.
The edge, as of a town; the outskirts.
To lie along or form the edge of; border: the creek that skirts our property.
To pass around rather than across or through: changed their course to skirt the storm.
To pass close to; miss narrowly: The bullet skirted an artery.
To evade, as by circumlocution: skirted the controversial issue.
To lie along, move along, or be an edge or a border.