timeskip
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English
Etymology
time + skip, cf. Japanese 時とばし (toki tobashi)
Noun
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.
- Any case of something jumping ahead in time.
- 2001 January 1, Aake Kinnunen, “Nomad 2 MG memory glitch?”, in creative.products.nomad (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.