From time + skip, cf. Japanese 時とばし (toki tobashi).
timeskip (plural timeskips)
- (fandom slang) 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.
2016, Derek Padula, Dragon Ball Culture Volume 5: Demons, Derek Padula, →ISBN, page 8:Akira Toriyama uses a timeskip to rejoin us with Gokū and friends in Dragon Ball Chapter 113, three years after Gokū leaves Uranai Baba's Palace for his global trek.
- Any case of something jumping ahead in time.
2001 January 1, Aake Kinnunen, “Nomad 2 MG memory glitch?”, in creative.products.nomad[1] (Usenet):Now I got one "Corrupted"-file which I erased and the next song had a timeskip. Player just informed me "Skip" and jumped some 10-15 seconds forwards.
