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1. A student who fails to attend classes
    
2. An officer who is licensed to command a merchant ship
   - master, captain, sea captain
    
3. The naval officer in command of a military ship
   - captain

1. Work as the skipper on a vessel

Derived forms: skippers, skippered, skippering

See also: skip

Type of: commissioned naval officer, educatee, officer, pupil, ship's officer, student, work

Encyclopedia: Skipper