skip mackerel

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.A light leap or bound. [1913 Webster]

2.The act of passing over an interval from one thing to another; an omission of a part. [1913 Webster]

3.(Mus.) A passage from one sound to another by more than a degree at once. --Busby. [1913 Webster]

Skip kennel, a lackey; a footboy. [Slang.] --Swift.

Skip mackerel. (Zool.) See Bluefish, 1. [1913 Webster]