Skipper is an informal name for the captain, a way to address the person who's at the helm of a boat or in command of a Navy ship. The word skipper comes from the Dutch schipper, from schip, or "ship."
Skipper, (family Hesperiidae), any of the approximately 3,500 species of insects (order Lepidoptera) that occur worldwide and are named for their fast, darting flight.
SKIPPER definition: 1. the captain of a ship or boat, a sports team, or an aircraft: 2. to be the captain of a boat…. Learn more.
skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered) (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.
Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
You can use skipper to refer to the captain of a sports team. The England skipper is confident.
- n (Sport, Naut) → capitano; (in boat race) → skipper m inv 2. vt (boat) → essere al comando di; (sports team) → capitanare Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
skipper, n.² meanings, etymology, pronunciation and more in the Oxford English Dictionary
'skipper' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations): mudskipper - saury - schipperke - skip
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