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skate
verb- to get away with something; to escape punishment US, 1945
- I’m saying you’ll skate–if you curtail your plans with Mickey. — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 292, 1992
- Leeds sensed that Fortney was as indifferent and lazy as he was. “Wanna let ’em skate?” — Joseph Wambaugh, Floaters, p. 81, 1996
- to win easily UK: SCOTLAND
- The Jags’ll skate that gemme [game] the morrow [tomorrow]. — Michael Munro, The Complete Patter, p. 141, 1996
- in the used car business, to steal another salesman’s sale US
- — Peter Mann, How to Buy a Used Car Without Getting Gypped, p. 195, 1975
- to dance IRELAND
- — Great Tuam Annual, p. 87, 1991
- to be without money TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO, 1996
- — Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
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