skipper: Meaning and Definition of

skip•per

1. the master or captain of a vessel, esp. of a small trading or fishing vessel.
2. a captain or leader, as of a team.

1. to act as skipper of.

skip•per

1. a person or thing that skips.
2. any of various insects that hop or fly with jerky motions.
3. any of numerous quick-flying, lepidopterous insects of the family Hesperiidae, closely related to the true butterflies.
4. saury (def. 1).