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skate

1 [skeyt]

noun, verb, skat⋅ed, skat⋅ing.

–noun

1.	ice skate (def. 1).

2.	roller skate.

3.	the blade of an ice skate.

4.	a skid on a lifeboat to facilitate launching from a listing ship.

–verb (used without object)

5.	to glide or propel oneself over ice, the ground, etc., on skates.

6.	to glide or slide smoothly along.

7.	Slang. to shirk one's duty; loaf.

8.	(of the tone arm on a record player) to swing toward the spindle while a record is playing.

–verb (used with object)

9.	to slide (a flat) across the floor of a stage.

—Idioms

10.	get or put one's skates on, British Informal. to make haste.

11.	skate on thin ice, to be or place oneself in a risky or delicate situation: Taking a public stand on the question would be skating on thin ice.

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Origin:
1640–50; orig. pl. scates < D schaats (sing.) skate, MD schaetse stilt (cf. ML scatia) < ?

Related forms:

skate⋅a⋅ble, adjective

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skate¹ (skāt)

An ice skate.
A roller skate.
A skateboard.
The act or a period of skating or skateboarding.

intr.v. skat·ed, skat·ing, skates

To glide or move along on or as if on skates.
To ride or perform stunts on a skateboard.
Informal To act in an irresponsible or superficial manner.

[From Dutch schaats, stilt, skate (taken as pl.), from Middle Dutch schaetse, from Old North French escache, stilt, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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Slang Dictionary

skate

n.
a drinking bout. : He's off on another three-day skate.
n.
a drunkard; a person on a drinking spree. : A couple of skates celebrating the new year ran into my car.
n.
something really easy. : The test was a skate!
in.
to get drunk. : Let's go out and skate, okay?

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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skating

mod.
drug intoxicated. : He's high all right—I'd say he's skating. , He took some wicked pills and is totally skating.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

skate (2)

"ice skate or roller skate," 1662, skeates "ice skates" (the custom was brought to England after the Restoration by exiled followers of Charles II who had taken refuge in Holland), from Du. schaats (singular, mistaken in Eng. as plural), from M.Du. schaetse, from O.N.Fr. escache "a stilt, trestle," from O.Fr. eschace "stilt" (Fr. échasse), from Frank. *skakkja "stilt" (cf. Fris. skatja "stilt"), perhaps lit. "thing that shakes or moves fast" and related to root of O.E. sceacan "to vibrate" (see shake). Or perhaps the Du. word is connected to M.L.G. schenke, O.E. scanca "leg" (see shank). Sense alteration in Du. from "stilt" to "skate" is not clearly traced. The verb is attested from 1696; U.S. slang sense of "to get away with something" is attested from 1945.

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