Word.ws English Dictionary

got one's skates on

got one's skates on is the simple past of get one's skates on.

got one's skates on is the past participle of get one's skates on.

Meaning of get one's skates on

Verb

get one's skates on (third-person singular simple present gets one's skates on, present participle getting one's skates on, simple past got one's skates on, past participle (UK) got one's skates on or (US) gotten one's skates on)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To start doing something quickly; to stop procrastinating; to hurry up.
    • If I don't get my skates on now I'm going to be late!

Questions about got one's skates on

What is got one's skates on the simple past of?
Got one's skates on is the simple past of get one's skates on.

Words near got one's skates on in the dictionary

  1. got one's shirt out
  2. got one's shit pushed in
  3. got one's shit together
  4. got one's shorts in a knot
  5. got one's shtick together
  6. got one's skates on
  7. got one's teeth into
  8. got one's ticket punched
  9. got one's tits in a wringer
  10. got one's undies in a bundle
  11. got one's way

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: got one's skates on (page history and authors); get one's skates on (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “got one's skates on.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/got_one%27s_skates_on. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.