An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SKIPPERED
Verb
skippered
simple past tense and past participle of skipper
Source: Wiktionary
SKIPPER
Skip"per, n.
1. One who, or that which, skips.
2. A young, thoughtless person. Shak.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: The saury (Scomberesox saurus).
4. The cheese maggot. See Cheese fly, under Cheese.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: Any one of numerous species of small butterflies of the family Hesperiadæ; -- so called from their peculiar short, jerking flight.
Skip"per, n. Etym: [D. schipper. See Shipper, and Ship.]
1. (Naut.)
Definition: The master of a fishing or small trading vessel; hence, the master, or captain, of any vessel.
2. A ship boy. [Obs.] Congreve.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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