snow skive

Someone who uses the excuse of snowfall to skip out on work.

John: "Sorry boss, due to heavy snowfall I can't drive in today and the trains and buses have stopped running"

Boss: "Strange, your colleague who lives on the same road as you made it in fine. Your not by any chance trying to snow skive?"

by Wizzdom February 22, 2010

Shut-up-and-skive

A response made to someone who is working on the same assignment as you and continually heckles you about doing this and that while in reality you are reading Urban Dictionary and MLIA.

Person a) Hey do you know how to work out this formula?
Person b) No sry
Person a) How about this graph?
Person b) soz nop
Person a) Are you working?
Person b) Oh shut-up-and-skive already

by Pandan8or October 24, 2009

skiving

Skiving is Scottish slang for skipping/ditching/bunking something like work or school
mainly used by Highschool kids to describe deliberately missing a class they didn't like

also it could be used in England I'm not sure though since I'm not English but maybe they do, I wouldn't know lol

jimmy: l love skiving class, i skived second period to go to McDonalds
Michelle: hah wish I had

by explanation February 21, 2022

I used to skived ritzily a the febofasgbogsdbogipnsgsinpadvsgojnfuckmeintheassandcallmepatrica

I'M LOSING IT. I CANT FUCKING TAKE IT. LIFE IS RUINED. THERES NOTHING LEFT IN THIS HORRIBLE WORLD. I'M FUCKING ENDING IT BY TOMMOROW.

WHY WAS I BORN
I used to skived ritzily a the febofasgbogsdbogipnsgsinpadvsgojnfuckmeintheassandcallmepatrica

by ABANDONHOPE. May 15, 2024

Skive

To drink from someone else's water bottle without touching your mouth to it.

"Oi John, can I skive some of your water?"
"Fuck off mate should've brought your own!"

by slangman124 July 20, 2025

Skive

(British) The action of drinking from somebody else's water bottle without touching your lips to it.

"John I forgot to bring water can I skive some of yours?"
"Piss off mate theres barely any left."

by slangman124 July 21, 2025

Skiving

Originated from the word ski diving this slang was created during war from a noble act by Tont shush and Ben dover from a parachuting incident

‘This young fellow was skiving

by Keith Lennon May 21, 2021