Etymology

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Today it means: An instance of fast-forwarding a substantial amount of time, such as years or decades, as a narrative device in a story, quickly aging characters and developing events. Full definition →

Japanese 時とばし
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  1. Japanese · derived from時とばし
  2. English todaytimeskip

From time + skip, cf. Japanese 時とばし (toki tobashi).

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