skate

skate

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?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) awkward as a cow on roller skates
  • a cheap skate
  • awkward as a cow on a crutch
  • be skating on thin ice
  • be skating/walking on thin ice
  • cheap skate
  • get (one's) skates on
  • get your skates on
  • get/put your skates on
  • ice skates
  • ice-skating
  • on thin ice
  • on thin ice, to be/skate
  • put (one's) skates on
  • skate
  • skate around
  • skate by
  • skate on
  • skate on (something)
  • skate on thin ice
  • skate over
  • skate over (something)
  • skates
  • skating
  • skating on thin ice
  • when hell freezes over and the devil learns to (ice) skate
References in periodicals archive
Carol, 54, started skating when she and some friends took their kids to the ice rink to learn to skate and the mums decided to join in.
Bloomex will supply podium bouquets, floral arrangements, centerpieces, judge's bouquets, corsages and gift baskets at all Skate Canada events including Skate Canada International and the Canadian Tire National Skating Championships.
Proline Skates, 15-17 Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff, CF10 1FH.
One year later, the first patent for a roller skate was issued to French inventor M.
They may look strange, but new skates with oversize wheels promise a speedier ride.
In fact, in-line skates are actually easier to skate in outdoors than quad (conventional) roller skates, because in-line skates are more forgiving of cracks in the pavement.
The result is a top-of-the-line skate. The laces tighten and hold automatically like a ski boot, and the ABEC-5 wheels in the TR and FT models spin longer than in any other skates I have used.
Even if this skate isn't judged to face imminent extinction, it may still be considered an overfished resource.
I reached the point where I didn't want to skate anymore."
"Branded as NHL SKATE, the rink development initiative with Family Enterprises is one of the most important long-term projects we as a league can undertake," said Solomon.
But the skating center's owner and skate coach did.
Unlike the relatively heavy leather boot of regular skates, the boot of the in-line skate is usually made of lightweight plastic or nylon.
All good skate wheels are of polyurethane, but quality varies according to the grade used.
VERNON HILLS u Hundreds of children, teens, and adults are enjoying ice skating seven days a week at the new Skate Room in Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills, the first and only permanent synthetic ice skating rink inside a mall in the U.S.