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noun

Skipjack n.

An upstart. (Obs.)

(Zool.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.

(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.

(Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

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Words linked to "Skipjack" : scombroid, Sarda, Sarda sarda, genus Sarda, elaterid, elater, skipjack tuna, snapping beetle, elaterid beetle, Euthynnus, Euthynnus pelamis, bonito, Atlantic bonito, click beetle, genus Euthynnus, scombroid fish