skipper2
Pronunciation: /ˈskɪpə/
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).