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skate
noun- an easy task US
- It wouldn’t be a real long hump, but it wouldn’t be a real skate either–about six or seven clicks. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 80, 1976
- Normally resupply day was a skate, a day the command cut the boonierats some slack. — John Del Vecchio, The 13th Valley, p. 351, 1982
- an extremely unattractive woman who is seen as a sex object, especially one who is ravaged by age UK
Possibly from obsolete “skate” (an inferior horse) and influenced by the sense “an unpleasant man”. - At the end of the day, I like skates. — Kevin Sampson, Clubland, p. 65, 2002
- an unpleasant man US, 1896
- a lazy and/or incompetent worker US
US Army usage. - — Seattle Times, p. A9, 12 April 1998: “Grunts, squids not grunting from the same dictionary”
- an act of letting someone escape wrongdoing without punishment US
- So, feature, Dudley gave Johnny a skate on the fur job and confided some of his own crime gigs to him[.] — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 302, 1992
- a tyre US
- — “Slingo”, The Official CB Slang Dictionary Handbook, p. 55, 1976
- a motorcycle US
- — Current Slang, p. 12, Winter 1970
▷ see:ROLLERSKATE▶ do a skate
to vanish NEW ZEALAND- — David McGill, David McGill’s Complete Kiwi Slang Dictionary, p. 115, 1998
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