Crossword-Solution: SKIRT 5 letters, 176 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word Word Type Definition
Skirt n. The lower and loose part of a coat, dress, or other like
garment; the part below the waist; as, the skirt of a coat, a dress, or
a mantle.
Skirt n. A loose edging to any part of a dress.
Skirt n. Border; edge; margin; extreme part of anything
Skirt n. A petticoat.
Skirt n. The diaphragm, or midriff, in animals.
Skirt v. t. To cover with a skirt; to surround.
Skirt v. t. To border; to form the border or edge of; to run along
the edge of; as, the plain was skirted by rows of trees.
Skirt v. t. To be on the border; to live near the border, or
extremity.

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Word Anagrams
SKIRT anagram KRIST, STIRK, STRIK

We have 176 clues for the answer “SKIRT”

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"Mini" or "maxi" clothing 1 answer
"Mini" or "maxi" garment 1 answer
A-line or mini 1 answer
Alternative to Capris 1 answer
Alternative to pants 1 answer
Avoid addressing 1 answer
Avoid an issue 1 answer
Avoid out of fear 1 answer
Avoid, as danger 1 answer
Blouse accompanier 1 answer
Blouse accompanier, often 1 answer
Blouse companion 1 answer
Blouse go-with 1 answer
Blouse partner 1 answer
Bottom of a certain school uniform 1 answer
Bypass closely 1 answer
CLOTH COVERING that forms the part of a garment below the waist 1 answer
Cancan dancer's garment 1 answer
Christmas tree adornment 1 answer
Circuitously avoid 1 answer
Cyndi Lauper sports one made of newspaper on the back of her "True Colors" album 1 answer
Dirndl, e.g. 1 answer
Dirndl, for one 1 answer
Dodge (the issue) 1 answer
Dodge, as an issue 1 answer
Don't directly answer 1 answer
Dressing on a caterer's table? 1 answer
Drindl. 1 answer
Edge around 1 answer
Edge of the golf green 1 answer
Evade an issue 1 answer
Evade by circumlocution 1 answer
Evade, as the truth 1 answer
FUSTANELLA 1 answer
Female garment 1 answer
Garment below a blouse 1 answer
Garment that can be made from ti leaves 1 answer
Garment with a pencil variety 1 answer
Garment with pleats 1 answer
Garment worn with a blouse 1 answer
Get around somehow 1 answer
Get around somehow, as an issue 1 answer
Go around, as an issue 1 answer
Go round; garment 1 answer
Golf-green edge 1 answer
Hobble or hoop, e.g. 1 answer
Hula dancer's "grass" garment 1 answer
Hula dancer's "grass" wear 1 answer
Hula dancer's wear 1 answer
It may be slit or gored 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REEAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SKIRT (5)

Such a midget she looked in her long skirt and maid’s cap, though she had sworn, when engaged, that she would never see ten again.
Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991
His shrunken brown flannel dress had been washed many times and left a long stretch of stocking between the hem of his skirt and the tops of his clumsy, copper-toed shoes.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
Jacob, on receiving the order to see if the liquor was warm enough, placidly dipped his forefinger into it by way of thermometer, and having pronounced it nearly of the proper degree, raised the cup and very civilly attempted to dust some of the ashes from the bottom with the skirt of his smock-frock, because Shepherd Oak was a stranger.
Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992
You can’t say as much for me, can you?” She was standing in the middle of the room, in a white silk shirtwaist and a short black velvet skirt, which somehow suggested that they had ‘cut off her petticoats all round about.’ She looked distinctly clipped and plucked.
The Song of the Lark Willa Cather 1992
She wore a costume that struck the boy as being remarkably brilliant: her silken waist being of emerald green and her skirt of four distinct colors—blue in front, yellow at the left side, red at the back and purple at the right side.
The Marvellous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum 1993

Quotes with SKIRT (3)

This is the best thing to wear for today, you understand. Because I don't like women in skirts and the best thing is to wear pantyhose or some pants under a short skirt, I think. Then you have the pants under the skirt and then you can pull the stockings up over the pants underneath the skirt. And you can always take off the skirt and use it as a cape. So I think this is the best costume for today.
Edith Bouvier Beale
... when you put on your shortest dress, please leave some mystery in it. That's the difference between a miniskirt and a ho-skirt. A ho-skirt shows your Frisbee. A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery.
Tyler Perry Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life
She felt the glide of his hair as he lowered his head to study the zipper on her skirt. Herimagination supplied other places his hair could touch, and she drew in her breath. He carefully pulled down the zipper, then pulled it back up. After several up and downforays, Kathy grew impatient:"Hello? Have I lost you to a zipper?" Darn. She must sound like every greedy womanwho'd ever lain with him. His soft chuckle reassured her. " 'Tis a long night, lass, and the waiting willna …
Nina Bangs The Pleasure Master
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 193 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).