SKIPPER

noun a ship boy.

2. skipper ·noun a young, thoughtless person.

3. skipper ·noun one who, or that which, skips.

4. skipper ·noun the saury (scomberesox saurus).

5. skipper ·noun the cheese maggot. ·see cheese fly, under cheese.

6. skipper ·noun the master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.

7. skipper ·noun any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family hesperiadae;

— so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.