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skateless

skateless adjective: without skates.

Adjective

skateless (not comparable)

  1. Without skates.
    • On a Wednesday night after a typical performance, featuring a flying Pegasus and a romance with a hunky mortal, Ms. Butler stood skateless (and leg-warmer-less) in a black strapless cocktail dress and black sandals that added two inches to her slight 5-foot-2 frame.2007 September 23, Winter Miller, “Last Actress Standing”, in New York Times

Origin of skateless

From skate + -less.

Questions about skateless

What does skateless mean?
Skateless means without skates.
What part of speech is skateless?
Skateless is an adjective.

Words near skateless in the dictionary

  1. skated on thin ice
  2. skated one's lane
  3. skated over
  4. skatefish
  5. Skategate
  6. skateless
  7. skatelike
  8. skatemill
  9. skatemills
  10. skatemobile
  11. skatemobiles

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