Usually means: Person who avoids work, responsibilities.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word skiver:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. skiver: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. skiver: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skiver: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skiver: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Skiver, skiver: Wordnik
  6. skiver: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Skiver, skiver: Wiktionary
  8. skiver: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. skiver: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. skiver: Dictionary.com
  11. Skiver: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Skiver: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. skiver: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. Skiver: Rhymezone
  15. Skiver: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. skiver: Free Dictionary
  17. skiver: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skiver: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skiver: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skiver: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. skiver: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Skiver)

noun:  A slacker.
noun:  A truant; one who is absent without permission, especially from school.
noun:  One who uses a skive (or skives).
noun:  (dialect) A skewer.
noun:  An inferior quality of leather, made of split sheepskin, tanned by immersion in sumac, and dyed, formerly used for hat linings, pocketbooks, bookbinding, etc.
noun:  The cutting tool or machine used in splitting leather or skins.
verb:  (UK, dialect) To skewer, impale.
noun:  A surname.

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