skipjack

Meaning of skipjack

noun
  1. a small tuna with dark horizontal stripes, widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate seas.
  2. another term for click beetle.
  3. a sloop-rigged sailing boat of a kind used off the east coast of the US.

early 18th century: from the verb skip1 + jack1. skipjack (sense 1) is from the fish's habit of jumping out of the water; skipjack (sense 2, sense 3) arose in the 19th century.

Information about skipjack

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of skipjack is: skipjacks.
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Hyphenation of skipjack

skip-jack

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
  • skipjack is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of skipjack

Words that rhyme with skipjack

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