skipper
Pronunciation: /ˈskɪp.ə/
The English word “skipper” has 14 meanings listed here.
noun
- The master of a ship.
- A coach, director, or other leader.
- The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
- Synonym of detective sergeant, especially as a term of direct address.
- A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
- One who jumps rope.
- Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.
- Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira (Pacific saury) and Sprattus sprattus (European sprat).
- A young, thoughtless person.
- The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly (family Piophilidae), which leaps to escape predators.
- A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
- A short-sleeved (or long-sleeved) tee-shirt, or sweatshirt.
verb
Etymology
From Middle English skippere, skyppere, scippere, borrowed from Middle Dutch scipper, schipper, from Old Dutch *skipāri, from Proto-Germanic *skipārijaz. Piecewise doublet of shipper, from ship + -er.
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