Skimming

Short for "skimboarding", the sport of running and jumping on a specially made board and skimming over the surface of the water (usually at the beach). The 2 types of skimming are:

- Sandskimming -
Done by skimming parallel to the beach across a thin layer of water, usually on a sandbar or other flat area. Almost all skimmers start this way, although there's lots of room for expertise with advanced sandskimming tricks.

- Wave-riding -
With wave riding you start higher on the beach, and run down the slope hopefully getting on your board before the shoal drops off. From there you ride out to a wave, carve into it and ride it in, performing your bag of tricks along the way.

"hey you guys wanna get some surf?"
"nah man, the surf sucks, i'd rather gargle cat wiz... I just wanna skim today."

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skim

The act of taking a middleman or drug dealer taking a portion of the product for himself after receiving it from the next person up before selling it to customers, especially when this act is done covertly, IE among friends.

"Man that asshole said he split up the ounce he bought for us four ways, but I only got 5 grams, he skimmed the sack man!"

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skim

The thin layer of water that covers the sand after a wave breaks. Also, the action of skimboarding.

(see skimboarding)
Cannon Beach has some sick skim
I'd rather be Skimmin'

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skimming

Taking the details off a card at an ATM
usually by adding an additional card
reader onto the original slot. The details
are used to make a fake duplicate. The
pin number is obtained by watching or
filming the victim as he types it in.

I was a victim of skimming because
2 hours after taking some money out of
a cash machine in Soho, 300 pounds was
taken out of my account at another machine in Brixton - and I was nowhere near there at the time.

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skim

a sense of embarrassment caused by everyday awkward scenarios

After trying to make fun of everyone at the party for acting stupid, Steven walks into the garage full of people with his member hanging out of his zipper. SKIMMMMM

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skim

to skim traffic is to change a portion of links on a web page so that they don't direct to a destination originally suggested by their caption or image. This is done, for example, to divert some of the traffic on the TGPs to associated sites.

Setting skimming to 100, 80, 50 means first surfer's click will go to content (100% skim ratio), second will go to content with 80% probability, all others will go to content with 50% probability.

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skimming

To steal a fraction of something
To take a small amount

"Frank was caught skimming a penny off each dollar he took in from the deli."

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