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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of skitter.

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Examples

  • Falling Skies averaged nearly 7 million viewers an episode and added the term "skitters" to sci-fi's alien lexicon.

    Summer TV Winners and Losers 2011

  • This is a good thing, because these computer-generated creatures have spidery legs and octopus-like heads, and scampering scores of them—known as "skitters"—would look ridiculous.

    Hollow Points and Cream Puffs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • This is a good thing, because these computer-generated creatures have spidery legs and octopus-like heads, and scampering scores of them—known as "skitters"—would look ridiculous.

    Hollow Points and Cream Puffs Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • They must evade "alien hovercrafts," mechas, and "skitters," which are described as dog-like insect creatures.

    "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader Cyriaque Lamar 2010

  • Worry skitters in close, invading the space of your sanity—like those little crabs used to do when they'd scuttle sideways on your hands as you held them out to your little brother.

    Portrait of a Sunday Afternoon Ann-Marie Martino 2011

  • Truth be known, the same notion skitters across the minds of sportswriters and athletes, too, who wonder if this ritualized behavior is worth the trouble.

    It's Time for the Sportswriters to Go Craig Wolff 2011

  • • If you don't consider batteries ecologically sinful, two button cells run the fourth Hex Bug Micro Robotic Creature, an ant ($10) that skitters ickly at roach-like speeds, 10 times faster than previously Hex Bugs, even if you don't turn on the lights.

    The Best of New York Toy Fair 2009 | DVICE 2009

  • Occasionally a bad punt skitters to a stop on my algebra notes, and I grab it.

    Camo Girl Kekla magoon 2011

  • Thirty miles east, a very different ferry skitters in a stiff breeze across the Manchester Ship Canal, undeterred by seals but disturbing a couple of grebes.

    Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool 2011

  • The moonlight "skitters down the tree trunks / slips into the streams / seeps inside the burrow / butters Rabbit's dreams."

    In Brief: Children's Books 2012

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  • Scots - diarrhoea.

    December 8, 2007

  • Manx (with an English plural), "a contemptuous epithet discharged by country children at Peel children in the rhyme, 'Peel town skitters Goin' to gather flitters' —limpets (V.A.D., 'Flitter'). See bonkans."

    —W. Walter Gill, Manx Dialect Words and Phrases, 1934

    April 23, 2009