Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A skipjack tuna.
- noun Any of various other fishes, such as the bluefish, that habitually leap out of the water.
- noun A small sailboat having a bottom shaped like a flat V and vertical sides.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shallow, impertinent fellow; an insignificant fop; a puppy.
- noun Formerly, a youth who rode horses up and down, showing them off with a view to sale.
- noun The merrythought of a fowl made into a little toy by a twisted thread and a small piece of stick.
- noun In ichthyology, one of several different fishes which dart through and sometimes skip out of the water.
- noun In entomology, a click-beetle or snapping-beetle; an elater; any member of the Elateridæ. See cut under
click-beetle . - noun A form of boat used on the Florida coast, built very flat, with little or no sheer, and with chubby bows.
- noun Pomolobus chrysochloris, of the family Clupeidæ, a herring found land-locked in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An upstart.
- noun (Zoöl.) An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.
- noun (Zoöl.) 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.
- noun (Naut.) A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several unrelated
fish . - noun obsolete An
upstart . - noun An
elaterid ; aclick beetle . - noun A shallow
sailboat with arectilinear or V-shapedcross section .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna
- noun oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito
- noun able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Very true, skipjack is a type of tuna so that could definitely be the cause of all the confusion.
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The other common species in the area is skipjack, which is still believed to be plentiful and is used for canning.
EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed info@ecologicalinternet.org (Agence France-Presse: 2010
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Of the other species of tuna, including yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore, the skipjack is the only one not suffering from serious population decline linked to overfishing.
The Guardian World News Robin McKie 2010
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Of the other species of tuna, including yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore, the skipjack is the only one not suffering from serious population decline linked to overfishing.
The Guardian World News Robin McKie 2010
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Of the other species of tuna, including yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore, the skipjack is the only one not suffering from serious population decline linked to overfishing.
The Guardian World News Robin McKie 2010
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Of the other species of tuna, including yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore, the skipjack is the only one not suffering from serious population decline linked to overfishing.
The Guardian World News Robin McKie 2010
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Of the other species of tuna, including yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore, the skipjack is the only one not suffering from serious population decline linked to overfishing.
The Guardian World News Robin McKie 2010
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Of the other species of tuna, including yellowfin, skipjack, bigeye and albacore, the skipjack is the only one not suffering from serious population decline linked to overfishing.
The Guardian World News Robin McKie 2010
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The smaller tunas, such as skipjack are most often used for these products.
Chapter 4 1982
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“It’s where my mother and grandmother shopped; it’s where I shop,” he said, pausing to examine an icy bed of aku, what Hawaiians call skipjack tuna.
American Chinatown Bonnie Tsui 2009
madmouth commented on the word skipjack
one of the nicknames for the click beetle
August 6, 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word skipjack
The Century has "n. Pomolobus chrysochloris, of the family Clupeidæ, a herring found land-locked in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers," but I think it's now known as Alosa chrysochloris.
July 21, 2015