roller skate
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- noun
- /ˈroʊlər skeɪt/
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- The children excitedly put on their roller skates and raced around the rink.
- a pair of roller skates
- a girl on roller skates
- wearing roller skates
It's getting hot in here, so put on some roller skates.
- It's getting hot in here, so put on some roller skates.
- Last week wrote a joke about Donald Trump on roller skates.
- You never knew you needed pink roller skates.
- You just put your your foot in the shoe that's got the the roller skates attached to it.
- Imagine you have roller skates on all the time and you don't want to skate.
- We're talking roller skates to space shuttle, you know.
- And that's what we often will think about, you know, when we think about, you know, Tesla or inline roller skates, any of that, the iPhone, all that stuff, iPhone.
Examples
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After I hurt my hand and came home, I bought a pair of roller skates for thirty-five dollars and went flying along the sidewalks.
Fiction book (1999) -
Get over here and take these roller skates off of me.
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This is a roller skate with wheels.
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My dad took away my roller skates.
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Look at the size of this guy on roller skates.
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Well, I remember I had a pair of roller skates.
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You will all have to get roller skates to keep up with her before long!
Blog text (16) -
What are you going to do with roller skates in Venice?
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The only other people left in the playground were two women and a little girl on roller skates leaving now through the gate, and a man on a bench a few feet away.
Fiction book (1998) -
Most of my afternoons that summer, I spent on roller skates, the old-fashioned kind with the key worn on a string around the neck.
Fiction book (2001)
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Morphology
The meaning 'to move on shoes with wheels' is directly derivable from combining 'roller' (a wheel) with 'skate' (a shoe or boot for gliding); the compound literally describes a skate that uses rollers. This compositional, descriptive pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the verb meaning.
Etymology
Roller skate comes from the two words roller, meaning a 'small wheel', and skate, meaning a device 'to glide'. Early designs were shoes with small wheels so people could glide on hard ground, so the name means a skate with rollers.