Skip"jack` (?), n.
1.
An upstart.
[Obs.]
Ford.
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.
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