As part of Operation Southern Spear, the United States enacted a blockade on sanctioned oil tankers traveling in and out of Venezuela on 17 December 2025, after placing additional sanctions affecting oil trade with the country. A week before announcing the blockade, the US seized the oil tanker Skipper in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela on 10 December, and then focused its ...
Skipper is an informal name for the captain, a way to address the person who's at the helm of a boat or in command of a Navy ship. The word skipper comes from the Dutch schipper, from schip, or "ship."
SKIPPER definition: 1. the captain of a ship or boat, a sports team, or an aircraft: 2. to be the captain of a boat…. Learn more.
Skipper, (family Hesperiidae), any of the approximately 3,500 species of insects (order Lepidoptera) that occur worldwide and are named for their fast, darting flight.
I'm Skipper, a handsome seven-year-old pup with a heart full of love and loyalty. Don't let my age fool you-I still have plenty of energy to chase my toys and enjoy a good game of fetch.
- n (Sport, Naut) → capitano; (in boat race) → skipper m inv 2. vt (boat) → essere al comando di; (sports team) → capitanare Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
skipper (third-person singular simple present skippers, present participle skippering, simple past and past participle skippered) (intransitive) To take shelter in a barn or shed.
You can use skipper to refer to the captain of a sports team. The England skipper is confident.