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skipper
noun- a police chief, captain or sergeant US, 1929
Jocular, from the C14 nautical sense. - This bust feels like fat city. Any legit L.A.P.D. dick would have taken one of our guys with him on a stakeout. Let’s go get the skipper. — James Ellroy, Because the Night, p. 375, 1984
- — The Official Encyclopaedia of New Scotland Yard, 1999
- a sport’s team captain UK, 1830
From the use as “a ship’s captain”, originally (in this sense) used of the captain of a curling team. - Van der Westhuyzen made a clever break and lobbed the ball up for skipper John Smit, who showed great hands and balance to score near the uprights. — The Observer, 27 June 2004
- a mid-level boss in an organised crime enterprise US, 2003
- “Then there’s capiregime, captains, or skippers.” — Ovid Demaris, The Last Mafioso, p. 21, 1981
- The Capos are the middlemen, sometimes called skippers. — Henry Hill and Byron Schreckengost, A Good Fella’s Guide to New York, p. 8, 2003
- a prison warden US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 196, 1950
- a railway guard US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 268, 1946
- a derelict property used as shelter by the homeless UK, 1925
From the C16 when the original sense was “a barn” (from Welsh ysgubor or Cornish sciber), hence ‘a bed out of doors’ and, finally, the current use. - [C]ook it over the bums’ fire hin the Greatorex Street skipper. — Geoffrey Fletcher, Down Among the Meths Men, p. 32, 1966
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 105, 1996
- in poker, a hand with five cards sequenced by twos US
- — Irwin Steig, Common Sense in Poker, p. 187, 1963
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