skip|per

skip|per
skip|per1 «SKIHP uhr», noun, verb.
–n.
1. the captain of a ship, especially of a yacht or a small trading or fishing boat: »

A new skipper had been piped aboard (Newsweek).

2. any captain or leader: »

the skipper of a baseball team.

–v.t.
to be the skipper of; captain; command: »

He skippered one of the first paddle-wheel steamers on the upper Mississippi (Atlantic).

[< Middle Dutch schipper < schip ship]
skip|per2 «SKIHP uhr», noun.
1. a person or thing that skips.
2. any one of certain insects that make skipping movements, such as a maggot, that lives in cheese.
3. any one of a group of small, mothlike insects that fly with a darting, hopping motion.
4. = saury. (Cf.saury)
[< skip1 + -er1]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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