Skip"per (?), n.
1. One who, or that which, skips.
2. A young, thoughtless person.
Shak.
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.
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Skip"per, n. [D. schipper. See Shipper, and Ship.]
1. Naut.
The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
2. A ship boy.
[Obs.]
Congreve.
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