skip town

1. 1.

   disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)

   Synonymstake a powder

   Broaderdisappear

Questions about skip town

What does skip town mean?

skip town means "disappear without notifying anyone (idiom)".

What is another word for skip town?

Close synonyms include take a powder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is skip town a common word?

skip town is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.