skipper

One who or that which skips or jumps; a leaper; a dancer.

A locust.

A trifling, thoughtless person; a skipjack.

In entomology:

A hesperian; any butterfly of the family Hesperiidæ: so called from their quick, darting, or jerky flight. Also called hopper. See cut under Hesperia.

The larva of the cheese-fly, Piophila casei; a cheese-hopper. See cut under cheese-fly.

One of certain water-beetles or -boatmen of the family Notonectidæ. See cut under water-boatman.

A skipjack, snapping-bug, or click-beetle. See cut under click-beetle.

The saury pike, Scomberesox saurus. See cut under saury.

Same as skip, 4.