Crossword-Solution: SKIPPER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Skipper | n. | One who, or that which, skips. |
| Skipper | n. | A young, thoughtless person. |
| Skipper | n. | The saury (Scomberesox saurus). |
| Skipper | n. | The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese. |
| Skipper | n. | Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight. |
| Skipper | n. | The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel. |
| Skipper | n. | A ship boy. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SKIPPER | anagram | KIPPERS |
We have 17 clues for the answer “SKIPPER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Boat captain | 1 answer |
| Ship's master | 1 answer |
| Ship's captain, informally, and a hint to help you to understand five answers in this puzzle | 1 answer |
| Ship's captain | 1 answer |
| Ship officer (with orders for this puzzle?) | 1 answer |
| Nautical VIP. | 1 answer |
| Gilligan's boss | 1 answer |
| Captain of a team, informally | 1 answer |
| Boat captain, or friend of Gilligan | 1 answer |
| Bligh, for one | 1 answer |
| Baseball manager, in slang | 1 answer |
| Any leader | 1 answer |
| Ship officer | 4 answers |
| BRITISH butterfly | 7 answers |
| Mariner | 19 answers |
| Pilot | 21 answers |
| CAPTAIN ___ | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SKIPPER (5)
Sir Percy had ridden thus far, had then met Briggs, the skipper of the _Day Dream_, and had sent the groom back to Richmond with Sultan and the empty saddle.
Only one man knew what had happened to him, and that was me, for, with my own eyes, I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over the rail in the middle watch of a dark night, two days before we sighted the Shetland Lights.
Devil only knows what the skipper wasn’t afraid of (all his nerve went to pieces altogether in that hellish spell of bad weather we had)--of what the law would do to him--of his wife, perhaps.
Only one man knew what had happened to him, and that was me, for with my own eyes I saw the skipper tip up his heels and put him over the rail in the middle watch of a dark night, two days before we sighted the Shetland lights.
The captain could stand upon the hurricane deck, in the pomp of a very brief authority, and give him five or six orders while the vessel backed into the stream, and then that skipper's reign was over.
Quotes with SKIPPER (3)
Samuel, safety is my watchword. Rest assured that proper procedures will be followed at all times." Skipper giggled. "Tell me, Mump. What ARE proper procedures exactly?""Simple," said Mump. "One: cause maximum chaos in the shortest possible time. Two: try not to get your head blown off.
A climate's changes are tough to quantify. Butterflies can help. Entomologists prefer "junk species--" the kind of butterflies too common for most collections-- to keep up with what's going on in the insect's world. They're easy to find and observe. When do something unusual, something's changed in the area. Art Shapiro's team at UC Davis monitors ten local study sites, some since the 1970s. The ubiquitous species are the study's go-tos, helping distinguish between lasting ch…
LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone i…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1962–2025).