"Skok" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: Skoks [plural]
Etymology: * As a Serbo-Croatian and Slovene surname, nickname for a Turkish refugee, from uskočiti (“to flee”) (compare Czech utéct). Also a nickname from the verb skok (“to jump”). This is also sometimes found as a Polish surname from the same verb skok. * As a Jewish (Lithuania and Latvia) surname, from Skoki, the Polish and Russian name for Skakai, a small town in Kriukai in Lithuania. Etymology templates: {{der|en|sh|-}} Serbo-Croatian, {{der|en|sl|-}} Slovene, {{cog|cs|utéct}} Czech utéct, {{der|en|pl|-}} Polish Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s}} Skok (plural Skoks)
  1. A surname from Slovene.

Inflected forms

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