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skate rat

skate rat noun: a dedicated skater who is committed to the street lifestyle.

Noun

skate rat (plural skate rats)

  1. (idiomatic, slang) A dedicated skater who is committed to the street lifestyle.

Forms of skate rat

pluralskate rats

Origin of skate rat

Originally coined in the 1970s and 1980s to insult skateboarders for their rebellious behavior in public spaces, the phrase has since been adopted by the skateboarding community as a badge of honor and term of endearment.

Questions about skate rat

What does skate rat mean?
Skate rat means a dedicated skater who is committed to the street lifestyle.
What part of speech is skate rat?
Skate rat is a noun.
What is the plural of skate rat?
The plural of skate rat is skate rats.

Words near skate rat in the dictionary

  1. skate over
  2. skate park
  3. skate parks
  4. skate punk
  5. skate punks
  6. skate rat
  7. skate skiing
  8. skate-around
  9. skate-arounds
  10. skateability
  11. skateable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: skate rat (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.

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