Usually means: Aggressive seabird, preys on others.
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  1. skua: Merriam-Webster
  2. skua: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skua: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skua: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skua: Vocabulary.com
  6. Skua, skua: Wordnik
  7. skua: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. skua: Wiktionary
  9. skua: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. skua: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. skua: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skua: Dictionary.com
  13. skua: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Skua (disambiguation), Skua (rocket), Skua: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Skua: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. skua: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. skua: Rhymezone
  18. Skua: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. skua: FreeDictionary.org
  20. skua: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. skua: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. skua: Encyclopedia

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  1. skua: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skua)

▸ noun:  Any of various predatory seabirds of the family Stercorariidae that often chase other seabirds to steal their catches.
▸ verb:  (transitive, slang, Antarctica) To steal, or borrow without permission.

Similar:
bonxie, Arctic skua, stercorariid, great skua, robber gull, jaeger, sea crow, man-of-war bird, stercorarid, dung-hunter, more...

Types:
brown skua, great skua, pomarine skua, South Polar skua, Arctic skua, more...

Phrases:
great skua, Arctic skua, catharacta skua, pomarine skua, skua gull, more...

Adjectives:
great, tailed, arctic, polar, south, common, brown, southern, pomarine, stercorarius, pomatorhine

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Similar:
bonxie, Arctic skua, stercorariid, great skua, robber gull, jaeger, sea crow, man-of-war bird, stercorarid, dung-hunter, more...

Types:
brown skua, great skua, pomarine skua, South Polar skua, Arctic skua, more...

Phrases:
great skua, Arctic skua, catharacta skua, pomarine skua, skua gull, pomatorhine skua, Blackburn Skua, Sea Skua, South polar skua, Brown skua, more...

Adjectives:
great, tailed, arctic, polar, south, common, brown, southern, pomarine, stercorarius, pomatorhine

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     stormy blue,     ocean blue,     pebble gray, more...



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