Definitions for skipjack

skipjack skip·jack

Spelling: [skip-jak]
IPA: /ˈskɪpˌdʒæk/

Skipjack is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 27 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 31 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in skipjack (acijkkps).

Definitions for skipjack

noun

  1. any of various fishes that leap above the surface of the water, as a tuna, Euthynnus pelamis, or the bonito.
  2. Entomology. click beetle.
  3. Nautical. an American one-masted sailing vessel.

Origin of skipjack

First recorded in 1545-55; skip1 + jack1

Examples for skipjack

They were chopping in several places at once now, and from the top of another tree the skipjack gave another shout.

Names won't sometimes, and there's a formality in Lucas that would never fit that skipjack of a boy.

"Yet the skipjack seemed the most improbable one of all," said his mother.

"And comes for it like the cattle to the scrubbing-stones," said the skipjack.

The skipjack found quite stiff and colourless this morning, in the water-jug!

"If I thought it was the skipjack element," she said, smiling.

Fishing in heavy water, a skipjack snaps at your fly, and you jerk him out to bank with a Devil take you.

In the big barn doorway the skipjack and Willie Ramsey appeared.

Congratulate the skipjack, with just a hint that he might have looked higher.

The skipjack proved speedy and they made the run back to the hotel in good time, arriving there before sundown.

Word Value for skipjack
Scrable

27

Words with friends

31

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