Skype

[ skahyp ]

Trademark.

1. a brand name for a software application and online service that enables voice and video phone calls over the internet.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to participate in a real-time conversation with (one or more people) using Skype.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Skype¹

First recorded in 2000–05; short for “Sky peer-to-peer”

Example Sentences

Over the next six days, three men and a woman, posing as police officers and a judge, kept her under constant surveillance on Skype, with her phone camera running nonstop.

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They noticed suspicious chats on his Skype account, then found thousands of videos of men having sex with a seemingly unconscious woman - Mr Pelicot's wife, Gisèle.

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NatWest Group has blocked messaging services WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype on company devices in the UK to stop staff using them to communicate with each other.

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Luke says this assistant interviewed him over Skype, telling him to expect to be topless for the Madrid hotel photoshoot, but there were no obvious red flags.

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By early 2020 he remembered "ringing a bell" to signal that he was cancer free - only for a Skype call during lockdown with specialists to shatter that illusion.

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