Skok

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proper noun

A surname from Slovene.

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Meanings

proper nounSkok (plural Skoks)

plural Skoks

  1. A surname from Slovene.

Origin

* 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.

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APA

Skok. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Skok

MLA

“Skok.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Skok. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Skok,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Skok.

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