skipjack

skipjack (plural skipjacks or skipjack)

1. Any of several not closely related fish.
   1. Several of the genus Euthynnus resembling tuna:
   2. A skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis)
   3. A common bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix)
   4. An alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
   5. A bonito (Sarda spp. etc.)
   6. A butterfish
   7. A cutlass fish (Trichiuridae spp.)
   8. A jurel (Caranx or Trachurus)
   9. A leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus Oligoplites)
   10. A runner (Elagatis pinnulatis)
   11. A saurel (Trachurus spp.)
   12. A saury (Scomberesocidae spp.)
   13. A threadfish (Alectis spp.)
2. (obsolete) An upstart.
   • 1639, John Ford, The Lady's Trial:

     Tag-rag or other, hogen mogen, vanden, skip-jacks or chouses.

3. An elaterid; a click beetle.
4. A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.

• skipjack tuna

• “skipjack”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.