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noun ˈskɪpəˈskɪpər informal 1The captain of a ship or boat, especially a small trading or fishing vessel. the skipper and one other man were convicted of smuggling Example sentencesExamples - It isn't meant as an indictment of the ship's skippers, who have taken their share of heat through the years.
- Gary Kane had been the skipper of the boat in which all four crew perished.
- The prawn trawler skipper dashed to the harbour where he keeps his boat.
- The skippers and ship owners may be fined £32,000 each.
- That means that you - the boat's skipper - should remain on deck to act as lookout.
- With little fuel left, the fishing boat's skipper decided the only option was to try to escape overland to neutral Sweden.
- The rescued men included the Taiwanese skipper of the vessel as well as two Taiwanese and two Vietnamese workers.
- Ransa will supply the vessel and a skipper if you need one.
- Unable to find and contain the source of flooding, the skipper of the sinking boat moved his crew to the safety of the other boat.
- Trawler skippers who entered the zone faced fines of up to £50,000.
- The starting point very much depends on where the boat skipper places the shotline.
- The skipper of their dive boat sent a Mayday to Humberside Coastguard at 5.15 pm after the two had returned to the boat.
- The best diving is usually found on the exposed north side of off-shore reefs, but boat skippers prefer to moor up in the lee.
- Boat skippers can cause mishaps on the water with similarly rash behavior.
- Despite an extensive sea search it has so far failed to locate the body of the skipper whose name is still being withheld.
- He has worked as a dive charter skipper in Australia and knows why missing divers are so hard to spot.
- Does he think he was the skipper of that boat taking Martin Sheen to Colonel Kurtz?
- Over 70 charter skippers and a few dedicated anglers took part in the 2004 Marine Sport fish Tagging Programme.
- The skipper of the vessel shouted an order to a crewman.
- Mills was ploughing through the fleet on his 60 ft super yacht when his skipper spotted two boats flying the French tricolor.
- Dive charter skipper John Walker looked over the trio's dive plan and planned his own search.
Synonyms commander, master, skipper leader, head, skipper - 1.1 The captain of a side in a game or sport.
the former Derbyshire batsman has been retained as skipper Example sentencesExamples - If what you want from your skipper is to overhit balls and otherwise remain anonymous, then Cafu fulfilled his brief.
- They know, with the skipper in the side, they won't be lacking guidance and a driving force.
- Until the foreign-based players join the squad, Zanaco midfielder Numba Mumamba remains the skipper of the side.
- He should be retained skipper till the 2007 World Cup.
- The Kiwi skipper has handled his players deftly and with a greater maturity.
- Pool, led from the front by their new Australian skipper Simon Dart, are showing good early season form.
- The ex-Salford skipper did not play competitive rugby for the whole of last season.
- Take your pick from the central defensive duo of Paddy McLoughlin and stand-in skipper Ruairi Boyle.
- Our skipper plays games against teams with dominant closers as if they are eight innings long.
- The charismatic South African skipper warns: " Don't write us off".
- At 31-3 ahead Malton lost skipper Creber with a hamstring problem.
- Reds have lost their opening two Super League games but skipper Goulding believes the Reds can turn things round before long.
- At 40, Terry Francona is the game's youngest skipper, and his ability to relate to players is an obvious strength.
- The South African skipper has flared as one of the brightest new talents on the international scene.
- Nedved showed in the recent European Championships that the Czech skipper is truly up there with the best in his sport.
- Soames is not letting the poor form of his side drag him down and the young skipper was top scorer with 44.
- And the Wanderers' club skipper insists he is not whistling in the wind.
- At the end of the game, as Hammers skipper Billy Bonds lifted the cup, Allen's emotions got the better of him and the tears rolled down.
- And the South Park skipper decided to hold on for the draw in the last over.
- Acomb had few problems against a beleaguered Huntington, who lost skipper Darren Willis to an ankle injury.
- 1.2 The captain of an aircraft.
Example sentencesExamples - The Air Force skipper gave us the keys to take the jet to Millington, Tennessee.
- Unknown to our crew, the skipper had told the squadron our aircraft had ditched, and survivor status was unknown.
- The skipper followed me as I spiralled down as slowly as possible.
- I caught it one day from the skipper which may help to explain why, in my book, he was one of the greatest guys I ever knew.
- Our skipper would serve as aircraft commander; he also was the air wing's top-hook aviator.
- Tasar skippers must have as a minimum a YA basic skills certificate of competency.
- Once upon a time, a safety officer had a skipper who told him to do a stand-down.
- Done with maneuvers, a US Navy aircraft carrier skipper decided to let his crew vote on which port to visit for shore leave.
Synonyms airman, airwoman, flyer, aeronaut
verbˈskɪpəˈskɪpər [with object]informal Act as captain of. the course teaches even complete beginners to skipper their own yachts Example sentencesExamples - Edwards skippered yacht Maiden in the 1990 round the world yachting race with an all woman crew, the first time it had been done.
- Simon Talbot from St Osyth was skippering a 53 ft yacht on a trip from Sweden to Cork when the accident happened.
- As is usual for J & M Bar the boat was skippered by Captain Dang.
- Coutts was a wonderful sailor who had skippered Alinghi to victory in the America's Cup, and deserved to be recognised for that feat.
- He skippered his own boat the " Sean Og ", at eighteen.
- When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
- She was launched in 1992 and skippered by Lawrie Smith in the following year's Round the World race.
- For the past eight years he has skippered boats for whale shark tours.
- Captain Ting skippered the boat for the day.
- Amer Sports One, skippered by Grant Dalton, lay just 40 miles adrift.
- Lovesick Goodman was nabbed while skippering his seven-metre yacht RoyAnna.
- His crew that went to Auckland for the 2002-03 Cup skippered by Ian Walker finished seventh out of nine challengers.
- Sean skippered the ‘Yellow Rose’ to many splendid victories.
- Philip, 46, skippered a yacht carrying 3.7 tonnes of cannabis - worth 11 million - from North Africa to Cornwall.
- The Bronington, once skippered by Prince Charles, has been moored on the Manchester Ship Canal in Trafford Park for 12 years as a visitor attraction.
- After the Gulf, Donald served in the Indian Ocean, where he skippered a mine-sweeper dealing with Japanese mines.
Synonyms fly, be at the controls of, control, handle, manoeuvre, drive, operate, steer, regulate, monitor, direct, captain
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schipper, from schip 'ship'. Rhymes Agrippa, chipper, clipper, dipper, equipper, flipper, gripper, hipper, kipper, nipper, Pippa, ripper, shipper, sipper, slipper, stripper, tipper, tripper, whipper, zipper noun ˈskɪpəˈskɪpər 1A person or thing that skips. eight-year-old Mary is a tireless skipper Example sentencesExamples - But these aren't any ordinary bit of rope, just as the competitors in the International Rope Skipping Championships aren't any ordinary skippers.
- 1.1 Used in the names of small insects and crustaceans that skip or hop, e.g. cheese-skipper.
Example sentencesExamples - One universal curing practice was the use of red pepper, which was rubbed into exposed areas, to prevent contamination by skipper flies.
- Predator avoidance is a significant factor driving the evolutionary development of silver-spotted skipper caterpillars.
2A small brownish mothlike butterfly with rapid darting flight. Family Hesperiidae: numerous genera Example sentencesExamples - Swallowtails, cabbage whites, skippers, and orange sulphurs follow scent trails to the tiny patches of flowers blooming furiously in the middle of the city.
- I saw fritillaries, red admirals, and a couple of kinds of skippers up there this afternoon.
- I'm delighted that mangrove skipper butterflies find them to their liking.
- Some butterflies they attract are spicebush swallowtails, monarchs, fritillaries, whites, skippers, and a host of others.
- The reserve is also home to a large number of butterfly species including green hairsteak, dingy skipper and dark green fritillary.
- What distinguishes a true butterfly from a skipper or a moth?
3The Atlantic saury (fish).
nounˈskɪpəˈskɪpər South African A long-sleeved sweatshirt or T-shirt.
nounˈskɪpərˈskipər informal 1The captain of a ship or boat. the skipper and one other man were convicted of smuggling Example sentencesExamples - Mills was ploughing through the fleet on his 60 ft super yacht when his skipper spotted two boats flying the French tricolor.
- Ransa will supply the vessel and a skipper if you need one.
- He has worked as a dive charter skipper in Australia and knows why missing divers are so hard to spot.
- Boat skippers can cause mishaps on the water with similarly rash behavior.
- The starting point very much depends on where the boat skipper places the shotline.
- It isn't meant as an indictment of the ship's skippers, who have taken their share of heat through the years.
- That means that you - the boat's skipper - should remain on deck to act as lookout.
- The rescued men included the Taiwanese skipper of the vessel as well as two Taiwanese and two Vietnamese workers.
- The skippers and ship owners may be fined £32,000 each.
- With little fuel left, the fishing boat's skipper decided the only option was to try to escape overland to neutral Sweden.
- The best diving is usually found on the exposed north side of off-shore reefs, but boat skippers prefer to moor up in the lee.
- Trawler skippers who entered the zone faced fines of up to £50,000.
- The skipper of the vessel shouted an order to a crewman.
- Despite an extensive sea search it has so far failed to locate the body of the skipper whose name is still being withheld.
- Gary Kane had been the skipper of the boat in which all four crew perished.
- Over 70 charter skippers and a few dedicated anglers took part in the 2004 Marine Sport fish Tagging Programme.
- The skipper of their dive boat sent a Mayday to Humberside Coastguard at 5.15 pm after the two had returned to the boat.
- Does he think he was the skipper of that boat taking Martin Sheen to Colonel Kurtz?
- Unable to find and contain the source of flooding, the skipper of the sinking boat moved his crew to the safety of the other boat.
- Dive charter skipper John Walker looked over the trio's dive plan and planned his own search.
- The prawn trawler skipper dashed to the harbour where he keeps his boat.
Synonyms commander, master, skipper leader, head, skipper - 1.1 The captain of a team in a game or sport.
the former Derbyshire batsman has been retained as skipper Example sentencesExamples - He should be retained skipper till the 2007 World Cup.
- The South African skipper has flared as one of the brightest new talents on the international scene.
- Until the foreign-based players join the squad, Zanaco midfielder Numba Mumamba remains the skipper of the side.
- Soames is not letting the poor form of his side drag him down and the young skipper was top scorer with 44.
- At 40, Terry Francona is the game's youngest skipper, and his ability to relate to players is an obvious strength.
- They know, with the skipper in the side, they won't be lacking guidance and a driving force.
- The Kiwi skipper has handled his players deftly and with a greater maturity.
- Acomb had few problems against a beleaguered Huntington, who lost skipper Darren Willis to an ankle injury.
- Reds have lost their opening two Super League games but skipper Goulding believes the Reds can turn things round before long.
- If what you want from your skipper is to overhit balls and otherwise remain anonymous, then Cafu fulfilled his brief.
- And the Wanderers' club skipper insists he is not whistling in the wind.
- At the end of the game, as Hammers skipper Billy Bonds lifted the cup, Allen's emotions got the better of him and the tears rolled down.
- At 31-3 ahead Malton lost skipper Creber with a hamstring problem.
- Our skipper plays games against teams with dominant closers as if they are eight innings long.
- Pool, led from the front by their new Australian skipper Simon Dart, are showing good early season form.
- And the South Park skipper decided to hold on for the draw in the last over.
- Nedved showed in the recent European Championships that the Czech skipper is truly up there with the best in his sport.
- Take your pick from the central defensive duo of Paddy McLoughlin and stand-in skipper Ruairi Boyle.
- The charismatic South African skipper warns: " Don't write us off".
- The ex-Salford skipper did not play competitive rugby for the whole of last season.
- 1.2 The captain of an aircraft.
Example sentencesExamples - Tasar skippers must have as a minimum a YA basic skills certificate of competency.
- The skipper followed me as I spiralled down as slowly as possible.
- The Air Force skipper gave us the keys to take the jet to Millington, Tennessee.
- Once upon a time, a safety officer had a skipper who told him to do a stand-down.
- I caught it one day from the skipper which may help to explain why, in my book, he was one of the greatest guys I ever knew.
- Our skipper would serve as aircraft commander; he also was the air wing's top-hook aviator.
- Unknown to our crew, the skipper had told the squadron our aircraft had ditched, and survivor status was unknown.
- Done with maneuvers, a US Navy aircraft carrier skipper decided to let his crew vote on which port to visit for shore leave.
Synonyms airman, airwoman, flyer, aeronaut
verbˈskɪpərˈskipər [with object]informal Act as captain of. the course teaches even complete beginners to skipper their own yachts Example sentencesExamples - Simon Talbot from St Osyth was skippering a 53 ft yacht on a trip from Sweden to Cork when the accident happened.
- Amer Sports One, skippered by Grant Dalton, lay just 40 miles adrift.
- As is usual for J & M Bar the boat was skippered by Captain Dang.
- Lovesick Goodman was nabbed while skippering his seven-metre yacht RoyAnna.
- Captain Ting skippered the boat for the day.
- When we see her, we remember that hot July day doing five knots pulling Jess and Jerry on a tube and Russ skippering his first yacht.
- Edwards skippered yacht Maiden in the 1990 round the world yachting race with an all woman crew, the first time it had been done.
- His crew that went to Auckland for the 2002-03 Cup skippered by Ian Walker finished seventh out of nine challengers.
- She was launched in 1992 and skippered by Lawrie Smith in the following year's Round the World race.
- The Bronington, once skippered by Prince Charles, has been moored on the Manchester Ship Canal in Trafford Park for 12 years as a visitor attraction.
- Coutts was a wonderful sailor who had skippered Alinghi to victory in the America's Cup, and deserved to be recognised for that feat.
- After the Gulf, Donald served in the Indian Ocean, where he skippered a mine-sweeper dealing with Japanese mines.
- He skippered his own boat the " Sean Og ", at eighteen.
- For the past eight years he has skippered boats for whale shark tours.
- Sean skippered the ‘Yellow Rose’ to many splendid victories.
- Philip, 46, skippered a yacht carrying 3.7 tonnes of cannabis - worth 11 million - from North Africa to Cornwall.
Synonyms fly, be at the controls of, control, handle, manoeuvre, drive, operate, steer, regulate, monitor, direct, captain
Origin Late Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schipper, from schip ‘ship’. nounˈskɪpərˈskipər 1A person or thing that skips. eight-year-old Mary is a tireless skipper Example sentencesExamples - But these aren't any ordinary bit of rope, just as the competitors in the International Rope Skipping Championships aren't any ordinary skippers.
- 1.1 Used in names of small insects and crustaceans that skip or hop.
Example sentencesExamples - Predator avoidance is a significant factor driving the evolutionary development of silver-spotted skipper caterpillars.
- One universal curing practice was the use of red pepper, which was rubbed into exposed areas, to prevent contamination by skipper flies.
2A small brownish mothlike butterfly with rapid darting flight. Family Hesperiidae: numerous genera Example sentencesExamples - What distinguishes a true butterfly from a skipper or a moth?
- Some butterflies they attract are spicebush swallowtails, monarchs, fritillaries, whites, skippers, and a host of others.
- The reserve is also home to a large number of butterfly species including green hairsteak, dingy skipper and dark green fritillary.
- Swallowtails, cabbage whites, skippers, and orange sulphurs follow scent trails to the tiny patches of flowers blooming furiously in the middle of the city.
- I saw fritillaries, red admirals, and a couple of kinds of skippers up there this afternoon.
- I'm delighted that mangrove skipper butterflies find them to their liking.
3The Atlantic saury (fish).
nounˈskɪpərˈskipər South African A long-sleeved sweatshirt or T-shirt.
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