Definitions For Skirt

noun

  • A garment hanging from the waist; worn mainly by girls and women
  • Cloth covering that forms the part of a garment below the waist
  • Informal terms for a (young) woman
  • (Fungi) a remnant of the partial veil that in mature mushrooms surrounds the stem like a collar
  • A piece of clothing worn by women and girls that hangs from the waist down
  • The part of a dress, coat, etc., that hangs from the waist down
  • An outer covering that hangs down to protect something

verb

  • Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
  • Extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle
  • Pass around or about; move along the border
  • Form the edge of
  • To avoid (something) especially because it is difficult or will cause problems
  • To lie or go along the edge of (something)

Is Skirts a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
10
Words with Friends
10

The word Skirt is worth 10 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Skirt in a Sentence

  • She was wearing a short skirt.
  • The skirt of her coat got caught in the car door.
  • They put a protective skirt around the base of the machine.
  • The mayor skirted the issue by saying that a committee was looking into the problem.
  • They tried to skirt the new regulations.
  • He tried to skirt around the question.

Synonyms for Skirt

Antonyms for Skirts

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