Online dictionaryOnline dictionary
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Skipjack   /skˈɪpdʒˌæk/   Listen
noun
Skipjack  n.  
1.
An upstart. (Obs.)
2.
(Zool.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
3.
(Zool.) 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.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |
Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar





"Skipjack" Quotes from Famous Books



... future, troubled his head no further about the matter. Him he sometimes took upon his knee, as of old. To Franky he would give languid advice about the pictures he was colouring, about the amount of cobbler's wax to affix to the skipjack he was making, about the rigging ...
— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann



Copyright © 2025 Dictionary One.com