Definition of skippered Skippered
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What does skippered mean?
Part of speech
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NounPlural: skippers |
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| skipper - a student who fails to attend classes | ||
| educatee, student, pupil a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution | ||
| skipper - the naval officer in command of a military ship | ||
| captain | ||
| commissioned naval officer a commissioned officer in the navy | ||
| armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine the military forces of a nation; "their military is the largest in the region"; "the military machine is the same one we faced in 1991 but now it is weaker" | ||
| skipper - an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship | ||
| master, captain, sea captain | ||
| ship's officer, officer a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel; "he is the officer in charge of the ship's engines" | ||
Verb |
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| skipper - work as the skipper on a vessel | ||
| work arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion; "The stitches of the hem worked loose after she wore the skirt many times" | ||
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Wiktionary 
- skipper (Noun)
The master of a ship. - skipper (Noun)
A coach, director, or other leader. - skipper (Noun)
The captain of a sports team such as football, cricket, rugby or curling. - skipper (Noun)
One who skips. - skipper (Noun)
A person who skips, or fails to attend class. - skipper (Noun)
Any of various butterflies of the families Hesperiidae and its subfamily Megathyminae. - skipper (Noun)
Any of several marine fishes that often leap above water, especially Cololabis saira. - skipper (Noun)
A young, thoughtless person. - skipper (Noun)
The cheese maggot. - skipper (Verb)
To be the skipper of a ship.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- skipper (n.)
One who, or that which, skips. - skipper (n.)
A young, thoughtless person. - skipper (n.)
The saury (Scomberesox saurus). - skipper (n.)
The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. - skipper (n.)
Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight. - skipper (n.)
The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel. - skipper (n.)
A ship boy.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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skipper
The person lawfully in command of a sea-going vessel. -
skipper
A sprat of the species Sprattus sprattus.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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skipper
skip′ėr, n. the master of a merchant-ship.—Skipper's daughters, white-topped waves. [Dut. schipper; Dan. skipper.] -
skipper
skip′ėr, n. a barn, a shed in which to shelter for the night.—v.i. to shelter in such a place.—n. Skipp′er-bird, a tramp. [Prob. W. ysguber, a barn.]
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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skipper
The master of a merchant vessel. Also, a man-of-war's man's constant appellation for his own captain. Also, the gandanock, or saury-pike, Esox saurus.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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skipper
A barn. CANT.--Also the captain of a Dutch vessel.
Wikipedia 
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butterfly
The Skippers are a group of insects in the order Lepidoptera, classified in the superfamily Hesperioidea, which includes only one family, the Hesperiidae.
Differences to butterflies.
Skippers differ in several important ways from the remaining butterflies, which are classified in the superfamily Papilionoidea and the neotropical superfamily Hedyloidea. Collectively, these three groups of butterflies share several characteristics especially in the egg, larval and pupal stage (Ackery et al. 1999). However, skippers have the antennae clubs hooked backward like a crochet. The other butterflies have club-like tips to their antennae and hedylids have feathered or pectinate antennae which give them an even more "moth"-like appearance than skippers. Skippers also have generally stockier bodies than the other two groups, with stronger wing muscles. Hesperioidea is very likely the sister group of Papilionoidea, and together with Hedyloidea constitute a natural group or clade.
Classification.
Note: Some authorities treat the Giant Skippers as a separate family, the Megathymidae, but more modern classifications place them within the subfamily Hesperiinae in the family Hesperiidae.
Many species of skippers look frustratingly alike. For example, some species in the genera "Erynnis", "Hesperia", and "Amblyscirtes" cannot currently be distinguished in the field by experts, the only reliable method of telling them apart involving dissection and examination of the genitalia.
