skipjacks in English
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1
a small tuna with dark horizontal stripes, widely distributed throughout tropical and temperate seas.
About 80 percent of exports consist of frozen, dried, and salted skipjack tuna ; canned fish; dried shark fins; and fish meal.
2
a sloop-rigged sailboat with vertical sides and a flat V-shaped bottom, used chiefly on the east coast of the US.
Their motor-less sailing boats are called skipjacks , and are allowed to fish for oysters freely.
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