Define Skiving Meaning

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Shorterned version of Skivies. Underwear

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

to vomit, throw up etc.

The action of tripping or otherwise stumbling while running in an attempt to skive off work or avoid someone who will confront you about said skiving, ending up on the floor.