skate

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skate definition


  1. n.
    a drinking bout. : He's off on another three-day skate.
  2. n.
    a drunkard; a person on a drinking spree. : A couple of skates celebrating the new year ran into my car.
  3. n.
    something really easy. : The test was a skate!
  4. 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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skate

In addition to the idiom beginning with skate, also see cheap skate; on thin ice, skate.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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