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Also see: skating | rink
The entry for 'skate' is displayed below.
Also see: skating | rink
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skate1
▶noun
- 1 an ice skate or roller skate.
- 2 a wheeled device used to move a heavy or unwieldy object.
- 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.
get one's skates on Brit. informal hurry up.
– derivatives
skater noun,
skating noun.
skater noun,
skating noun.
– origin C17 (orig. as the pl. scates): from Du. schaats (sing. but interpreted as pl.), from OFr. eschasse ‘stilt’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
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.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
skate3
▶noun informal, dated or S. African a disreputable or contemptible man.
– origin C19: origin uncertain.

