Skipper



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Skipper definition is - any of various erratically active insects (such as a click beetle or a water strider). How to use skipper in a sentence. Skipper definition, the master or captain of a vessel, especially of a small trading or fishing vessel. A skipper that is on an inshore boat would go back to the shore every day while the offshore boats venturing out in waters away from the shore would be in a position to return just after days, or weeks at sea. Skipper was born with six legs and two tails! ABC's Will Ganss spoke with her vet. 3 dead in Texas shooting, suspect at large, considered armed and dangerous: Police.

Skipper

Skipper or skippers may refer to:

Skipper

Rank[edit]

  • Skipper (boating), a person who has command of a vessel
  • Skipper (rank), a former warrant rank in the British Royal Naval Reserve
  • Skipper, an alternative name for a sergeant in South East Police forces in England
  • The leader of a Sea Scouts (Boy Scouts of America) troop

Sports[edit]

  • Another name for a team's manager (baseball), captain (association football), or captain (cricket)
  • One who skips using a skipping rope
  • Houston Skippers, a minor league ice hockey team based in Houston, Texas, that played in the 1946 season
  • Skipper (cannon), the game cannon used by the Virginia Tech Hokies football team

People[edit]

  • Ricardo Skippers (born 1986), South African footballer
  • Rudolf Scheepers Skipper Badenhorst (born 1978), South African rugby union player
  • Hargrove Skipper Bowles (1919–1986), American politician and businessman
  • Klemen Skipper Clement (c. 1484–1536), Danish merchant, captain, privateer and leader of a peasant rebellion
  • Francis Gidney (1890–1928), an early leader of the Scouting movement in the United Kingdom
  • Thomas Pinckney 'Skipper' Heard (1898–1980), longtime athletics director of Louisiana State University
  • Lewis Skipper Mullins (born c. 1945), American Taekwondo 10th degree black belt
  • Clarence Skipper Roberts (1888–1963), American Major League Baseball catcher
  • Bernard Skipper Wise, American singer, songwriter, musician and entrepreneur

Places[edit]

  • Skippers, Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Skippers Canyon, New Zealand

Arts and entertainment[edit]

  • The Skipper, a character from the television series Gilligan's Island
  • Skipper (Barbie), a doll, Barbie's younger sister
  • Skipper (Madagascar), a character in Madagascar and The Penguins of Madagascar
  • Kill Cruise (German title: Der Skipper), a 1990 film starring Jürgen Prochnow, Patsy Kensit and Elizabeth Hurley
  • Skippers (TV programme), an Irish documentary series
  • Skipper Riley, a character in the movie Planes

Animals[edit]

  • Skipper (butterfly), a family of butterfles
  • Another name for the European sprat, a fish

Aviation[edit]

  • Beechcraft Skipper, a model of aircraft
  • Skippers Aviation, a charter airline based in Osborne Park, a suburb of Perth, Australia

Other uses[edit]

Skipper Fish

  • AGM-123 Skipper II, a short-range laser-guided missile
  • AMT Skipper, a semi-automatic pistol
  • USS Skipper (AMc-104), a U.S. Navy minesweeper
  • Skippers Seafood & Chowder House, a chain of independently owned and operated restaurants
  • Skipper (computer software), a visualization tool and code generator for PHP ORM frameworks

See also[edit]

Skippers Restaurant

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