Skive By

Skive By, Skive-By or Skiveby
(Skive - A British slang word for for evading a responsibility or task, avoiding work by staying away or leaving early; it's often heard in the form "skive off")

Based on word Drive-By (as in Drive-by shooting)

To visit your parents or friend(s) for a favour (usually money, possibly drugs) of purely selfish and non-essential nature.Say, to borrow money to spend on a night out with friends rather than for urgent bills or an emergency.

To visit someone purely for self gain , to get something, rather than out of niceness or friendship

"I just have to do a Skive By of my mums so i can get some booze tonight" Said Karen after picking up Lucy for a big night out.

Justin did a Skive-by of Warrens, he knew warren would have some extacy pipes to sell.

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skive

To avoid work but still appearing as though you are doing something.

Like I am doing now.

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skive

Doing anything but that which you are supposed to be doing during a specific time frame.

E.G Pretending to do something for which you are being payed for, such as a your job, but instead doing other things (like having a laugh, phoning your friends, hiding from your boss, surfing the internet, playing computer games, having a sly cigarette) that are totally unrelated or unconected to that which is within your job description.

Taking 2 hours for lunch instead of 1 and getting a collegue to cover for you.

Leaving work earlier than you should, and hoping your boss doesn't notice.

Calling in sick to work, then going out for an all day pub crawl.

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skive

v. (mainly Brit.) To go AWOL and present an obscure excuse upon return.

My best excuse for skiving is the bus driver wouldn't let me pay for the fare in two pence pieces.

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Skive

To be absent from work or school during the hours that you should normally be there for purposes that have nothing to do with your work or education activities. Used a lot in the construction industry.

Rebecca isn't here because she has skived off for a lunch time date.

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skiving

Skipping school, or playing hooky, in England, as used by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series,

The Weasley's skiving pills could give you any number of excuses to get out of school, including a fever, a bad rash or diarrhea.

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Skive

The English term for faking sickness just so you can miss school/work

I’m gonna skive today so I miss the test

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