Defn: A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. Busby. Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] Swift. — Skip mackerel. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish, 1.
SKIPJACK
Skip"jack`, n.
1. An upstart. [Obs.] Ford.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc.
4. (Naut.)
Defn: A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
SKIPPER
Skip"per, n.