Skipper

/ˈskɪp.ə/ · noun

Meaning

(nautical) The master of a ship..

Definitions by Sense

1. (nautical) The master of a ship.
2. A coach, director, or other leader.
3. (sports) The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
4. (transitive) To captain a ship or a sports team.
5. Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
6. A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
7. (sports) One who jumps rope.
8. Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae, having a hairy mothlike body, hooked tips on the antennae, and a darting flight pattern.

Example Sentences

The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.

It is standard practice for search and rescue authorities to ask other vessels in the area to assist. Usually, this is done. The weather on the night of 31 December was too atrocious, and when at 11pm the Coast Guard asked the crabber Ruff & Reddy to head to the scene, its skipper refused, as a skipper has a right to do if he believes conditions to be too treacherous.

But even the return of skipper Steven Gerrard from a six-week injury layoff could not inspire Liverpool

Tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license

Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]

Skipper, stand back; 'tis age that nourisheth

Plain nylon doeks...Men's knitted skippers, long sleeves, three buttons in front.

The special constables..were issued with one pair of boots, two overalls, one raincoat, and two skippers — but no shirts or warm coats.

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Word Forms

• skippers
• skippering
• skippered

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