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Skipper   /skˈɪpər/   Listen
noun
Skipper  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, skips.
2.
A young, thoughtless person.
3.
(Zool.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
4.
The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
5.
(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.


Skipper  n.  
1.
(Naut.) The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
2.
A ship boy. (Obs.)





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"Skipper" Quotes from Famous Books



... had left a very different impression. Fred worked hard at his studies because he had to; and even with persistence and industry he had not shone brilliantly in the scientific courses he had elected. The venerable dean once said that Fred was a digger, not a skimmer and skipper, and that he would be all right if only he dug long enough. He was graduated without honors and went South to throw in his fortunes with his father's Mexican projects. He was mourned at the college as the best all-round player ...
— Otherwise Phyllis • Meredith Nicholson
... a fool for a skipper," grumbled a voice. But almost at the moment the wind took her right aback—or would have done so had the crew not been preparing for it. Her stern swung slowly around into view, and within two minutes she was fetching away from ...
— The Ship of Stars • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... Joe Chambers?" Master Lirriper hailed the skipper as he appeared on the deck of the Susan. "I have brought you two more passengers for London. They are going there ...
— By England's Aid • G. A. Henty
... the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughter, To ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes
... time when the brig had been wrecked her crew had got safe away from her, and had been able in part to strip her before they left her alone upon the sea. What I wanted, however, they had not taken away. In a locker I found a case made to hold six big bottles, in which the skipper had carried his private stock of liquors very likely; and two of the bottles, no doubt being empty when the cabin was cleared, had been left behind. They served my turn exactly, and I brought them on deck and filled them from my pool ...
— In the Sargasso Sea - A Novel • Thomas A. Janvier


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