n. One who or that which skips or jumps; a leaper; a dancer.n. A locust.n. A trifling, thoughtless person; a skipjack.n. In entomology:n. A hesperian; any butterfly of the family Hesperiidæ: so called from their quick, darting, or jerky flight. Also called hopper. See cut under Hesperia.n. The larva of the cheese-fly, Piophila casei; a cheese-hopper. See cut under cheese-fly.n. One of certain water-beetles or -boatmen of the family Notonectidæ. See cut under water-boatman.n. A skipjack, snapping-bug, or click-beetle. See cut under click-beetle.n. The saury pike, Scomberesox saurus. See cut under saury.n. Same as skip, 4.To move with short skips; skip.n. The master of a small trading or merchant vessel; a sea-captain; hence, in familiar use, one having the principal charge in any kind of vessel.n. A barn; an outhouse; a shed or other place of shelter used as a lodging.To take shelter in a barn, shed, or other rude lodging: sometimes with indefinite it.n. Same as climbing-fish, 2.n. In cricket, the captain of a cricket eleven.n. Also the commander of any other body of men, as of a company of soldiers; a leader.To command a ship; command and drill (as sailors); serve as skipper to.