Skipper (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, skips.
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2. A young, thoughtless person. Shak.
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3. (Zoöl.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
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4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
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5. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadæ; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
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