It stands for "à ce qu'il paraît" in French ("look like", "apparently", "from what it seems" in English)

It's a french phonetic abbreviation for "à ce qu'il paraît". It's basically a shortcut for that means "From what I heard".

It's also used as "It seems".

It can appear in English when a French use it in an English context.

'askip' is also used in the spoken French.