skipper2Pronunciation: /ˈskɪpə/Translate skipper | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of skipper noun 1a person or thing that skips: eight-year-old Mary is a tireless skipper used in the names of small insects and crustaceans that skip or hop, e.g. cheese-skipper. 2a small brownish moth-like butterfly with rapid darting flight. Family Hesperiidae: numerous genera 3the Atlantic saury (fish) (see saury). skipper in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of skipper in the US English dictionary