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skipjack - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'skipjack' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Skipjack [ n.]
- An upstart.
- An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
- 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.
- A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.