Skipjack /(?)/

Skip·jack

Skipjack

n.
  1. An upstart. [Obs.]
  2. An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle. (Zool.)
  3. 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. (Zool.)
  4. A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section. (Naut.)