skate

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skate1

▶noun

• 1 an ice skate or roller skate.

• 2 a wheeled device used to move a heavy or unwieldy object.

▶verb

• 1 move on ice skates or roller skates.

  ■ ride on a skateboard.

• 2 (skate over/round/around) pass over or refer only briefly to (a subject or problem).

– phrases
get one's skates on Brit. informal hurry up.

– derivatives
skater noun,
skating noun.

– origin C17 (orig. as the pl. scates): from Du. schaats (sing. but interpreted as pl.), from OFr. eschasse ‘stilt’.

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skate2

▶noun (pl. same or skates) an edible marine fish of the ray family with a diamond-shaped body. [Raja batis and other species.]

– origin ME: from ON skata.

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skate3

▶noun informal, dated or S. African a disreputable or contemptible man.

– origin C19: origin uncertain.