skipper
pronunciation
How to pronounce skipper in British English:
UK [ˈskɪpə(r)]
How to pronounce skipper in American English:
US [ˈskɪpɚ]
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- Noun:
- a student who fails to attend classes
- an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
- the naval officer in command of a military ship
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- Verb:
- work as the skipper on a vessel
Word Origin
- skipper
- skipper: see ship
- skipper (n.1)
- "captain or master of a ship," late 14c., from Middle Dutch scipper, from scip (see ship (n.)). Compare English shipper, used from late 15c. to 17c. in sense "skipper." Transferred sense of "captain of a sporting team" is from 1830.
- skipper (n.2)
- "one who skips," mid-15c., agent noun from skip (v.). As a type of butterfly, 1817, from its manner of flight.
Example
- 1. " They 'll have to take my head first , " the skipper chuckled .
- 2. Arsenal skipper cesc fabregas will make their champions league clash with barcelona .
- 3. The skipper cuts the engine and I listen to the sound of the swinging blades .
- 4. The skipper peter bethune subsequently boarded the japanese vessel in an attempt to make a citizen 's arrest of the ship 's captain and was later convicted in japan on assault charges .
- 5. Today japan released the boat 's chinese skipper , who had been accused of bashing into the two japanese vessels deliberately .