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Definition of skate noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

skate

noun
 
/skeɪt/
 
/skeɪt/
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  1. (also ice skate)
     a boot with a thin metal blade (= sharp edge) on the bottom, that is used for skating on ice
    • a pair of skates
    see also in-line skateTopics Clothes and Fashionb2
  2. (also roller skate)
     a type of boot with two pairs of small wheels attached to the bottom
  3. (plural skate, skates)
     a large flat sea fish that can be eatenTopics Fish and shellfishc2
    4. Word Originnoun sense 1 mid 17th cent. (originally as the plural scates): from Dutch schaats (singular but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse ‘stilt’. noun sense 2 Middle English: from Old Norse skata.
Idioms
get/put your skates on
  1. (British English, informal) used to tell somebody to hurry
    • Get your skates on or you'll miss the bus.
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