An instance of plucking or pulling sharply.
Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence.
The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals.
Cheap wine.
To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation.
To pull something sharply; to pull something out
To pull or twitch sharply.
To remove feathers from a bird.
To play a string instrument pizzicato.
To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc.
Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing.
The act of skimming.
Skim milk.
That which is skimmed off.
A cursory reading, skipping the details.
Theft of money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
To surreptitiously scan a payment card in order to obtain its information for fraudulent purposes.
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
To read quickly, skipping some detail.
To throw an object so it bounces on water.
To scrape off; to remove (something) from a surface
To ricochet.
To hasten along with superficial attention.
To become coated over.
To clear a liquid from (scum or substance floating or lying on it), especially the cream that floats on top of fresh milk.
To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
To put on a finishing coat of plaster.
To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying on it, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface.
To steal money from a business before the transaction has been recorded, thus avoiding detection.
Having lowered fat content.