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• n  the act of removing floating material from the surface of a liquid
• n  reading or glancing through quickly
• n  failure to declare income in order to avoid paying taxes on it
• n  the act of brushing against while passing
• v  travel on the surface of water
• v  move or pass swiftly and lightly over the surface of
• v  examine hastily
• v  cause to skip over a surface
• v  coat (a liquid) with a layer
• v  remove from the surface
• v  read superficially

• As his partner in crimefighting and graft, Shane (Walton Goggins), turned on him, the ensuing spiral of revenge destroyed the very families that the Strike Team had been skimming .
• So the crooks reaped vast untaxed profits by skimming millions in cash off the top of the gambling take.
• Guidance: Sea-skimming cruise monitored by radar altimeter, active radar terminal homing.

• skim
• grazing
• shaving
• plane
• skim over
• scan
• rake
• glance over
• run down
• skip
• skitter
• skim off
• cream off
• cream

News & Articles

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• Gas station credit card skimmer given maximum sentence
  Sentences began being delivered Monday to two California men convicted of using credit card skimming devices to steal from hundreds at Honolulu gas stations.   39-year-old Vardan Kangramanyan was given the maximum sentence of 20 years and ordered to pay restitution for identity theft and conspiracy. His accomplice, 29-year-old Hakop Changryan, will not be sentenced until next week. The two were ...
  June 18, 2013 - KITV Honolulu
• ATM skimming suspect arrested in California
  Nicu Calin, 43, arrested June 7; allegedly installed debit card skimming devices A suspected ATM skimming ring that involved Romanians targeting bank machines across Florida has lead agents to another suspect, according to federal court documents.        
  June 17, 2013 - Sun-Sentinel
• Man sentenced to 81 months for skimming data
  A California man accused of skimming data from debit card readers at Las Vegas Chase bank branches has been sentenced to prison.
  June 15, 2013 - News 3 Las Vegas

Quotes

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• Richard Shelby in New York Times (blog)
  I can tell you that yacht ought to be here skimming and cleaning up a lot of the oil,Mr. Shelby said. "He ought to be down here seeing what is really going on. Not in a cocoon somewhere."
• Barack Obama in New York Times
  Under a sunny blue sky with puffs of clouds, Mr. Obama said that for the oil-polluted waters, "a day like today is actually ideal for in situ burning and skimming" of surface oil.
• Haley Barbour in Mississippi Press (blog)
  The oil in the Sound is "more than we have the capacity to deal with," he said. "We have to be honest with the public. Right now, we don't have enough skimming capacity if everything that is off our shores actually keeps coming north."