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skipjack
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary
SKIPJACK
SKIPJACK Skip "jack `, n.
1. An upstart. [Obs. ] Ford.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: 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. )
Defn: A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
New American Oxford Dictionary
skipjack
skip jack |ˈskipˌjak ˈskɪpˌʤæk | ▶noun 1 (also skipjack tuna ) a small tuna with dark horizontal stripes, widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate seas. Also called bonito or ocean bonito. [Katsuwonus (or Euthynnus ) pelamis, family Scombridae. ] 2 another term for click beetle. 3 a sloop-rigged sailboat with vertical sides and a flat V-shaped bottom, used chiefly on the east coast of the US. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from the verb skip 1 + jack 1. Sense 1 is from the fish's habit of jumping out of the water; sense 2 and sense 3 arose in the 19th cent.
Oxford Dictionary
skipjack
skip |jack |ˈskɪpdʒak | ▶noun 1 (also skipjack tuna ) a small tuna with dark horizontal stripes, widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate seas. Also called bonito or oceanic bonito. ●Katsuwonus (or Euthynnus ) pelamis, family Scombridae. 2 another term for click beetle. 3 a sloop-rigged sailing boat of a kind used off the east coast of the US. ORIGIN early 18th cent.: from the verb skip 1 + jack 1. Sense 1 is from the fish's habit of jumping out of the water; sense 2, sense 3 arose in the 19th cent.
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