skipper

skipper is a 7-letter English word with 11 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who, or that which, skips. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 17 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who, or that which, skips.
2. noun. A young, thoughtless person.
3. noun. The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
4. noun. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
5. noun. Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadae; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
6. noun. The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
7. noun. A ship boy.
8. noun. the naval officer in command of a military ship

   Synonyms: captain

9. noun. an officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship

   Synonyms: captain, master

10. noun. a student who fails to attend classes
11. verb. work as the skipper on a vessel

Synonyms

captain, master

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in skipper:

kippers

Common word forms

skippers, skippered, skippering

Words from these letters

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