to not go to work, school, etc. when you should: skive off work/school It's easy to exaggerate an illness in order to skive off work.

What is the meaning of skive off?

(skive off something) to avoid going to school or work when you should go. She said she was ill but I knew she was skiving off. We always used to skive off PE lessons if we could.

How do you use skive off in a sentence?

Verb (2) He works for his mother and feels he can skive off whenever he feels like it. She skived off school twice last month.