Skip″per (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, skips.
2. A young, thoughtless person. Shak.
3. (Zoöl.) The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
5. (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadæ; — so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.