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skipper2

Pronunciation: /ˈskɪpə/

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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).

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