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Skitter

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Skitter meaning

To move hurriedly or as by bouncing or twitching; to scamper, to scurry; to scuttle. | To make a scratching or scuttling noise while, or as if, skittering. | To move or pass (something) over a surface quickly so that it touches only at intervals; to skip, to skite.

Example sentences (5)

The man known above all for his vast reservoir of empathy was now staging a game of chicken with his own party, daring them to either skitter out of his way or face a head-on collision at the Democratic convention.

Graduating high schoolers had to skitter across private land to splash in Watmough Bay.

The game is full of deliberate graphical that skitter across the screen, with flickering overlays that pop up when the player users their PHI augmented reality device to hack systems and scan areas.

Now it's Skitter's turn to find her own loving family where she can flourish.

Examples of the latter include dolphins performing traveling jumps, and Indian skitter frogs executing standing jumps from water.