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The master of a ship.
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A coach, director, or other leader.
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The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling.
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Agent noun of skip: one who skips.
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A person who skips, or fails to attend class.
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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.
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Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira, the Pacific saury.
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A young, thoughtless person.
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The cheese maggot, the larva of a cheese fly, in Piophilidae, which leaps to escape predators.
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A barn or shed in which to shelter for the night.
Examples of skippers in a Sentence
Many of the ships were merchant vessels pressed or hired, and commanded by their own skippers, who displayed little military spirit.
Most Skippers have their own ideas how the cod ends should be false bellied and where the halving becket should be fixed.
This time, skippers seem more cautious on their approach to the line.
Butterflies include ringlets, small skippers and meadow browns.
Flying Fish trains and recruits yacht skippers and sail, dive, surf, windsurf, ski and snowboard instructors.
No injuries occurred to the divers but the competence of the charter boat skippers operating in the area was called into question.
Well known and used by trawler skippers, Iceland was worked all the year round by many skippers.
Like other skippers it has a fast whirring flight, which often ends up with a return to its original resting place.
Their skippers each spend thousands of dollars to get their boats in the water, to their location, and manned with a skilled crew.
Captain Chris Kleme doesn't take his job too seriously, which can aggravate some of the older skippers.