(n.) A reflection; a jeer or gibe; a sally; a brief satire; a squib.
(n.) A wanton girl; a light wench.
Example Sentences:
(1) A philosophy student at Sussex University, he was part of an improvised comedy sketch group and one skit required him to beatbox (making complex drum noises with your mouth).
(2) He has just performed a skit now about his bicycle scheme, which included a swipe at the French (because their scheme resulted in many more cycles being pinched, apparently.)
(3) We have developed a device tentatively named Multi Skit (Mu), a simple allergen test device, in order to conduct the skin test safely, accurately and conveniently.
(4) He has hosted SNL three times alongside Wiig, co-creating their skits each time.
(5) His live shows begin with a skit mocking the pipsqueak talents of Jimi Hendrix: what price expanding the vocabulary of the rock guitar in a way unseen before or since when compared to a man from Penarth singing Yakety Yak?
(6) Contrary to the popular image of the undecided voter as being ignorant and unengaged – a recent Saturday Night Live skit captured the stereotype brilliantly – Flack is a political science graduate who is following the race closely.
(7) He is a maverick, a teenager – and dabbles in enough off-beat skits to fill that token jazz category.
(8) She said he was a cross between Fred Astaire and Jack Black, a song-and-dance man who can do all sorts of skits.
(9) New diagnostic tools as penile Doppler ultrasonography, PBI estimation, NPT measurement, invasive SKIT's, neurophysiological methods, selective phalloarteriography, artificial erection and dynamic cavernosography are introduced and are the guide to therapeutic approach.
(10) The bizarre skit features Broughton, in wrestling-promoter braggadoccio mode, telling the camera : “I’m cleverer than you, I’m better looking than you, I’ve got more charisma than all of you could ever dream of, and of course the important thing, I’ve got more money than any of you could possibly imagine.” Broughton told the Hartlepool Mail that he had been quoted “out of context”.
(11) In the skit, Ted mentions to Mark Wahlberg that if "you want to work in this town" you have to be Jewish.
(12) I wanna be in that .” After an internship on one low-budget film, Lievsay was hired to edit United Artists movies, as well as the prerecorded skits for Saturday Night Live.
(13) He later tried to justify his angry reaction, saying: "This is the one person I know, so I can go and let out everything that I feel about every single bogus weekly cover, every single bogus skit, every single rumour in barbershop, everything that people feel is OK to treat celebrities like zoo animals or act like what they're saying is not serious or their life is not serious or their dreams are not serious."
(14) It’s like an SNL skit: ‘Look at me – I’m so relatable.’ Can 'Obamadale' become 'Clintondale'?
(15) In 2006, a skit upset Hezbollah and shortly afterwards, Shia Lebanese attacked Christians in east Beirut in what was thought to be payback.
(16) Eventually they switched to sketches, including a nude balloon dance and a Shakespearean skit that Hardee had written in Ford open prison.
(17) She posts songs, vlogs and comedy skits with her Scottish sidekick, the Unnecessary Otter.
(18) The show broke its rating records in 2008 when vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin appeared alongside comedian and writer Tina Fey, who played her in a skit.
(19) Yes, Fey did crack a joke about Fallon petting Trump’s hair; it was the best line of the skit.
(20) There's a bit of everything, from Hindi punk rap to the self-referential Boom Skit about her time in America ("Brown girl, turn your shit down… Let you into Super Bowl, you try to steal Madonna's crown"), to the gorgeous lushness of Sexodus, a collaboration with The Weeknd .
Vine
Definition:
(n.) Any woody climbing plant which bears grapes.
(n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants.
Example Sentences:
(1) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(2) It is Vine who initiated this latest assault on Ed’s character.
(3) Vine's short-notice inspection report on border security checks at Heathrow's terminals 3 and 4, published on Thursday ,says that many of those who are being drafted in are ex-UK Border Agency employees who are being rehired, or staff who have been working elsewhere in the Home Office but have only been given basic training to work on the airport passport desks.
(4) I consider that lengthy delays in publishing reports risk reducing the effectiveness of independent inspection, which depends to a large extent on timely publication of findings, and it is contributing to a sense that the independence of my role is being compromised.” Vine disclosed in his letter that he was so perturbed by the proposals that he sought a legal opinion.
(5) John Vine, the chief inspector of immigration, who is conducting the official inquiry into who, including ministers, knew what when in a row which has put the home secretary's political reputation on the line, is to publish an interim report as early as next week.
(6) These may involve either nutrition, as in calcium deficiency in some lettuce varieties, tomato, and bell peppers, or direct toxicity (chloride or sodium toxicity, or both) in tree and vine crops.
(7) Vine also criticises the searching priorities of the Border Force and HM Revenues and Customs by highlighting that 68% of freight consignments targeted for checks at the border are actually undergoing a physical examination while 43,000 low-risk cargoes were being checked.
(8) Sources said that some of Vine’s previous reports had been delayed for months by May and then released en masse.
(9) Photograph: Rex Feeding into this narrative, an email from Sarah Vine, Gove’s wife, was accidentally sent to a member of the public, leaking details of her reservations about Johnson’s popularity with members and media bosses.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Vine about the Scottish independence referendum.
(11) Mr Vine said: "Some time ago I decided I would have to leave Newsnight if I went to Radio 2 and that's a wrench, but no journalist could turn down such a magnificent offer from what is the UK's most successful radio station.
(12) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
(13) You're like Tarzan, swinging from vine to vine" – Pete Campbell Sterling Cutler Cooper Gleason Draper Holloway Chaough Campbell.
(14) Vine says the files in these "complex" cases, which go back to 2003, were discovered in boxes that had been transferred last March from a UKBA unit in Croydon to their offices in Sheffield where they had not been dealt with at the time of the inspection.
(15) • He listed journalists who were close friends , including the Times's Daniel Finkelstein and Sarah Vine, the wife of education secretary and former Times journalist Michael Gove.
(16) House Democrats’ Vine British politics has been much slower to get involved.
(17) It has been a principle of successive governments that under-subscribed state schools should wither on the vine, so why not apply the same principles to the private sector?
(18) Add your own advisory lines from Shakespeare on the comment thread below – or share them on Instagram, Vine or Twitter with the #gdnbard hashtag.
(19) ― A Fatal Inversion, as Barbara Vine (1987) Our children, when young, are part of ourselves.
(20) I’ve got vines of them going all up my other arm and round my shoulder,” he says proudly.