skateboarder
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈskeɪtˌbɔrdər/
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skater
- Gene, I'm starting to think this whole skateboarder idea isn't such a great thing after all.
- skateboarders over 18
- sample of skateboarders
- oriented skateboarders
I'm not a very good skateboarder, so God bless.
- I'm not a very good skateboarder, so God bless.
- And it's because it couldn't predict what what this skateboarder was going to do.
- And my cousin, who was a pro skateboarder at the time, six months after I got here, started filming a pilot for a potential MTV show.
- They were just really sick skateboarders all around.
- A kid skateboarder from Cardiff to then being household name?
- Or you're a pro skateboarder and you kind of drift away from, from the essence of what makes us feel connected.
- They'll look like skateboarders, all looked kind of long hair and you wouldn't think these guys are trained fucking killers.
- I mean, I was just a punk kid growing up in a skateboarder, just doing shenanigans at a younger age, bouncing back and forth between mom and dad.
Examples
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The talented skateboarder performed an amazing trick at the park yesterday.
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Now I can come here whenever I want, and the skateboarders are really cool.
Blog text (4) -
Ladies and gentlemen, the greatest professional skateboarder ever to live!
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Me, I wanted to be a skateboarder.
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Here l am, a skateboarder.
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I noticed that a skateboarder I'd seen the other day was watching me.
Fiction book (2002) -
At that time, I was very into rock bands and, um, going out to concerts, being a skateboarder.
Academic text (2005) -
Everything is cool because you're a famous skateboarder, huh?
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Several cars, backing out of parking slots, have to jerk to a halt as a skateboarder or bicycle suddenly whizzes behind them.
Fiction book (2001) -
All day long, Therese was surrounded by jocks, skateboarders, class clowns, and class officers.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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2.2
A person who rides a wooden board with wheels to do tricks
Surface Forms
Morphology
skateboarder = skateboard (transparent) = skate + board + er
The meaning is directly compositional: a skateboarder is a person associated with a skateboard.
Etymology
Skateboarder comes from skate + board + -er. A skate means 'to slide', a board is a flat piece of wood, and -er means 'someone who does something', so a skateboarder is a person who rides or does tricks on a sliding board.