1. (n.)skipper the master or captain of a vessel, esp. of a small trading or fishing vessel.
2. skipper a captain or leader, as of a team.
3. (v.t.)skipper to act as skipper of.
4. (n.)skipper one that skips.
5. skipper any of various insects that hop or fly with jerky motions.
6. skipper any of numerous quick-flying insects of the superfamily Hesperioidea, characterized by a stout body and clubbed antennae with a hook on the end, closely related to the true butterflies.
Etymology: (1200–50)
Definition of 'SKIPPER'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)skipper a student who fails to attend classes
2. (noun)master, captain, sea captain, skipper an officer who is licensed to command a merchantship
Definitions of SKIPPER 
Afrikaans: skipper, loods
Arabic: قائِد السَّفينَه او الطائ
Bulgarian: мор.капитан
Brazilian: capitão
Czech: kapitán
German: der Kapitän
Danish: skipper; holdkaptajn
Greek: καπετάνιος, κυβερνήτης, α
Spanish: capitán
Estonian: kipper, kapten
Farsi: كاپيتان
Finnish: kapteeni
French: capitaine
Hebrew: רַב-חוֹבֵל
Hindi: कप्तान, नायक जहाज का
Croatian: kapetan momčadi, kapetan 
Hungarian: kapitány
Indonesian: kapten
Icelandic: flug-/skipstjóri; fyrirli
Italian: skipper, capitano
Japanese: 船長
Korean: 주장
Lithuanian: kapitonas,škiperis
Latvian: kapteinis
Malay: kapten
Dutch: gezagvoerder
Norwegian: skipper; lagkaptein
Polish: szyper, kapitan
Persian: كاپيتان
Pashto: ماڼو، جاله وان ( په تيره 
Portuguese: capitão
Romanian: comandant, căpitan
Russian: капитан; шкипер
Slovak: kapitán
Slovenian: kapitan
Serbian: kapetan
Swedish: skeppare, befälhavare, fl
Thai: ผู้นำทีม
Turkish: kaptan, reis
Taiwanese: 船長，機長，隊長，組長
Ukrainian: шкіпер, капітан
Urdu: کپتان
Vietnamese: đội trưởng, thuyền trưởng
Chinese: 船长，机长，队长，组长
