skidn.
/skɪd/, U.S. /skɪd/ 1.
a. A beam, plank, or piece of timber, esp. one of a number upon which something rests or is supported, or by which a thing is held in position.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports > supporting beam or plank of wood
skid1609
needle1684
head tree1747
sleeper1849
1609–10 Cranbrook Churchwardens' Accts. in J. C. L. Stahlschmidt Church Bells of Kent (1887) 239 It. pd for two Skiddes for the frame of the bells, vs iiijd.
1760 Philos. Trans. 1759 (Royal Soc.) 51 292 This tub was fixed upon skids (pieces of timber) about six inches thick.
1809 W. Irving Hist. N.Y. I. iii. i. 122 He had not a little the appearance of a robustious beer barrel, standing on skids.
1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 93 The block..is then mounted upon square pieces of wood called skids.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's Man. (1862) 63 There is..a skid, or transom, placed across the last step of the carriage.
b. One of a number of beams, or pieces of stone, on which a vessel is built, or placed during repair.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > slip on which ships built or repaired > framework on which vessel rests
stocks1422
trestle1612
cradle1627
boat cradle1829
gridiron1846
skid1856
grid1867
crib1883
1856 Illustr. London News 2 Feb. 110/1 This [dry] dock..was 191 feet long on the stone skids at bottom.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 629 Skids,..beams resting on blocks, on which small craft are built.
1888 Daily Tel. 27 June 5/2 Boats which will float from their skids when waterborne.
c. Oil Industry. A skid beam (see sense Compounds below).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > platform > beam supporting deck
leg1931
skid1975
skid beam1976
1975 Offshore Engineer Oct. 66/1 The order for the skids went to Hopson, Co Durham.
1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 20/2 Major items of drilling equipment represent skid sizes of available components.
2. † a. A kind of sledge. Obsolete.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [noun] > for transport of goods
sleadc1374
draya1387
sled1388
slipe1488
slid1513
drag1576
sledge1684
skid1712
paddock1738
sleigh1748
train1783
bobsled1796
bobsleigh1841
bob1856
stone-boat1859
travois1873
slider1888
bobs1910
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 182 You must have..a Kind of Skid or Sledge, upon which the tree is set a little leaning.
b. Nautical. (See quot. 1750 at β. .)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > fender
junk1528
puddinga1625
fender1626
fend1658
fend-bolt1678
bongrace1685
skid1743
pudding fender1883
sausage1968
α.
β. 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor 152 Skids are wooden Fenders fay'd on the Outside of the Ship, for the Conveniency of hoisting in Boats, Provisions, etc.1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Skids, or Skeeds, are long compassing pieces of timber, formed so as to answer the vertical curve of a ship's side.1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 284. 1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 92 The boats on the davits and the long-boat on the skids.1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 8 There broke a Sea in the Ship, which..bilg'd the Cutter, and canted her off the Skeets [sic]..athwart the Barge.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Architecture The main skeeds, for hoisting in the boats clear of the ship's side.
1823 W. Scoresby Jrnl. Voy. Northern Whale-fishery 303 It cleared all our boats, and occasioned only a trifling injury to some of the skeeds in its progress.
c. A plank or roller on which a heavy thing may be slid or pushed along.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > plank, roller, or rail on which something is slid
roller1434
slider1582
skid1782
jack roller1843
ways1855
society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > plank or roller for sliding heavy objects
skid1846
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer iii. 110 The logs were placed with skids, and the usual contrivances: thus the rude house was raised.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 284 The name of Skids is also given to pieces of plank put under a vessel's bottom, for the purpose of launching her off when she has been driven ashore.
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Skid, a piece of light timber from ten to twenty feet in length, upon which heavier timber is rolled or slid from place to place.
1868 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army ⁋1167 As it may become necessary to disembark without the aid of a platform, some strong skids not less than 15 feet long, should always be carried.
d. Lumbering. One of a set of peeled logs or timbers, partially sunk into the ground, and forming a roadway along or down which logs are drawn or slid; also, one of the logs forming a skidway (see Compounds). U.S.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > place where logs enter river
rollway1820
skid1851
slide1858
banking ground1863
1851 Harper's Mag. Sept. 518 New skids are nicely peeled..and plentifully as well as calculatingly laid along the road.
1880 Lumberman's Gaz. 14 Jan. Some of the lumber~men have from 8,000,000 to 10,000,000 [logs] on the skids.
1893 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 194/2 Then the load itself, three logs tandem,..slid over the greased skids with a gliding, majestic motion.
e. Coal Mining. (See quot. 1883.)
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1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Skids, slides or slippers upon which certain coal-cutting machines travel along the faces whilst at work.
f. A runner attached to the underside of an aircraft. Cf. tail skid n., wing skid.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > landing gear > skid
skid1909
tail skid1913
1909 Aëronaut. Jrnl. 13 119/2 The tail of the machine rests on a small skid fixed to the frame.
1909 Aëronaut. Jrnl. 13 120/1 The wing tips are provided with light wheels and skids.
1909 A. Berget Conquest of Air ii. iii. 194 The planes rest upon two skids which form a kind of sleigh.
1910 C. C. Turner Aerial Navigation of Today xxiv. 284 The machine is mounted on skids.
1912 Rep. 81st Meeting Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1911 482 In connection with the under-carriages of aeroplanes, the advantage of landing direct on skids is urged.
1947 A. C. Douglas Gliding & Adv. Soaring x. 259 Very close to the usual position of the release, will be the nose fitting of the skid.
1981 ‘A. Hall’ Pekin Target i. 11 We put the chopper down..on one skid and a rotor tip.
g. plural. In figurative phrases describing impending downfall or defeat; the way to failure or ruin: to put the skids under (a person or thing), to arrange the downfall of; to remove or oust (esp. from office), to get rid of; to cause to fail; to hit the skids, to enter a rapid decline or deterioration; on the skids, on the way to defeat or ruin; in a steadily worsening state. colloquial (originally U.S.).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
1918 H. C. Witwer in Collier's 9 Mar. 16/3 Me and Jeanne is gonna have a flat over in Brooklyn as soon as we put the skids under the Kaiser.
1920 H. C. Wither in Collier's 5 June 36/3 Kane Halliday, as the butlers was wonted to announce him previous to the time he hit the skids, was merely engaged to this gold mine.
1921 A. G. Empey Madonna of Hills lxi. 363 As yet it would be too dangerous to flaunt Davis openly, even if he was on the ‘skids’.
1929 D. Hammett Red Harvest xii. 119 ‘What did Noonan put the skids under you for?’ ‘Skids? What skids? I quit.’
1938 A. J. Liebling Back where I came From 48 The men on the Bowery..had taken to hanging around saloons, drinking on empty stomachs. Eventually they had hit the skids and been forced to abscond from the genteel communities where their wives still lingered.
1943 M. McCarthy Company she Keeps v. 128 Capitalism was on the skids, and everybody ought to know about it.
1954 A. Melville Simon & Laura in Plays of Year XI. 26 You're too pigheaded to realise that the skids are well and truly under you.
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed ix. 61 I'm on the skids. For good, it looks like.
1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xvi. 165 A plan by one gang to put the skids under another.
1976 Daily Mirror 12 Mar. 23/4 They were only 378p when the £ hit the skids a week ago.
1977 Irish Press 29 Sept. 12/6 The Irish shoe industry, after being on the skids for six years, may be finding its feet again.
3. in extended use.1866 E. C. Rye Brit. Beetles 114 This development..acts as a ‘skid’ or ‘break’ upon the base of the elytra.
a. A device for locking the wheel of a vehicle or for retarding its motion in descending a hill or slope; esp. an iron shoe chained to the vehicle and placed in front of the wheel so as to be caught between it and the ground.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on wheels > [noun] > parts of vehicle moving on wheels > devices to retard or stop motion > skid or lock to retard motion
trigger1591
drug1638
trigen1659
skid1766
drag1795
remskoen1816
slipper1827
shoe1837
sledge1839
hub1856
rough lock1858
spoke1858
wagon-drag1875
wagon-lock1875
wheel-lock1875
sprag1878
slipper-drag1883
slipper-brake1884
shod1893
1766 Compl. Farmer Skid, the chain by which the wheel of a waggon is fastened, so as to prevent its turning round, upon descending a steep hill.
1824 W. J. Burchell Trav. Interior S. Afr. I. 151 The remschoen (lock-shoe or skid) is a log of wood..having a groove in it to receive the felly of the wheel.
1836 G. Head Home Tour 87 As the laden carriages are thus raised, an iron skid is attached to the last, to prevent accident.
1874 M. Collins Transmigr. I. vi. 95 We began to descend a hill so steep that the skid was necessary.
b. figurative or in figurative context. A retarding influence or agency.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > decreasing rate of movement or progress > causing > one who or that which
slower1592
retarder1644
skid1841
slower-down1947
the world > action or operation > manner of action > slowness of action or operation > [noun] > one who or that which is slow > one who or that which delays or retards
forslower1593
skid1841
1841 T. Hood Tale of Trumpet iii, in New Monthly Mag. Sept. 160 Backsliding in spite of all moral skid.
1865 Daily Tel. 12 Apr. 6 It is for ever the function of Tories to be the skid, and not the wheel.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 292 It is often said that a talkative person might put the skid on, with advantage to his listeners.
1884 Contemp. Rev. Aug. 193 Legislation does not require to have a skid on the wheels continuously.
4.
a. [ < skid v.1] An act of skidding; also, a side-slip. Also, in extended use, with reference to motor-boats.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > slipping or sliding > an act of
slide1596
slip1596
slither1861
skid1907
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [noun] > skidding
skid1907
1907 A. Bennett Grim Smile of Five Towns 192 At the bottom they had a severe skid.
1908 Isle of Man Weekly Times 12 Sept. 4/1 All the cars out complain of some bad skids.
1928 Daily Express 3 Sept. 5/2 The breath-taking sprawling skids round the cornering buoys.
1933 R. Kipling in Strand Mag. Feb. 131 The Cars put up an average bag of twenty dead per diem... And so began, in skid and stink, the real blood-sport of Britain.
1972 ‘H. Calvin’ Take Two Popes xi. 111 The cars touched gently at 100 kph, went into a skid together and slid on to the roadside verge.
b. Aeronautics. A movement of an aircraft that includes a sideways component, esp. away from the centre of curvature of a turn. Cf. slip n.3 9j.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > [noun] > sideslip
side slipping1832
side-slip1910
skid1916
slip1916
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 83 The velocity of the ‘skid’, or sideways movement.
1942 Tee Emm (Air Ministry) 2 65 Do a quick barrel half roll with plenty of skid.
1952 A. Y. Bramble Air-plane Flight xiii. 199 Some pilots use the term ‘slip’ loosely to mean a skid. It is important to note the difference. A side-slip may occur whilst flying straight or inwards during a turn, but ‘skidding’ of the machine can occur only during yawing motion, and strictly, is always in the direction outwards, away from the turn.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations.
skid beam n. (see quot. 1846); also transferred, a horizontal beam supporting a deck on an oil or natural gas platform.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > timbers of hull > deck or hold beams
transom1545
beam1627
wing-transom1711
stool1797
hold-beam1801
breast beam1805
skid beam1846
beak-head-beam1850
cat-beam1850
deck-beam1858
main-transom1867
spale1867
society > occupation and work > equipment > oil and natural gas recovery equipment > [noun] > platform > beam supporting deck
leg1931
skid1975
skid beam1976
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. 290 Spar-deck properly signifies a temporary deck laid in any part of a vessel; and the beams whereon it rests get the name of skid-beams.
1895 Daily News 31 Jan. 6/2 Lifting the heavy boats into their positions on the skid-beams over the upper deck.
1976 Offshore Platforms & Pipelining 23 The distance between skid beams is the first dimension to consider when designing a platform rig.
skid-lid n. slang a motor-cyclist's crash-helmet.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > helmet > types of
hard hatc1400
smoke helmet1900
crash-helmet1918
skid-lid1958
1958 Oxf. Mail 8 Feb. 8/7 Skid-lids' importance stressed.
1968 R. V. Beste Repeat Instruct. vii. 71 He wore the leather jacket and round skid-lid..usual to ton-up tearaways.
1977 C. Watson One Man's Meat xiii. 120 This bird in motor-cycle get-up..with that great skid-lid hiding half her face.
skid mark n. the mark made on the road by the tyre of a skidding vehicle (usually plural).
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1937 M. Allingham Dancers in Mourning iv. 59 The skid marks were easily discernible on the flint road.
1978 M. Gilbert Empty House v. 47 There were no skid marks, which would..indicate that he made no attempt to brake.
skid-mounted adj. mounted on runners.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles according to means of motion > vehicle moving on runners > [adjective] > having runners
runnered1843
skid-mounted1960
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. (Suppl.) 24/2 Being skid-mounted, it can readily be moved to a new site.
1975 Petroleum Rev. 29 135/1 AOT will provide complete prefabricated skid mounted systems into which are built flowmeters, [etc.].
skid-pan n. (a) (see quot. 1838); (b) a slippery road surface prepared to enable drivers to practise skid-correction; also transferred.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [noun] > skidding > a surface to enable practise of skid-control
skid-pan1958
pan1966
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Skid-pan, the iron, used to Skid with.
1884 C.T.C. Monthly Gaz. Nov. 347/1 These roads being composed of soft stone, and all waggons coming down with skidpans on.
1958 Times 17 June 9/6 On the skid pan (which is equivalent to a road covered with wet ice).
1959 News Chron. 12 Oct. 1/4 Rain turned many roads into skid-pans and caused hundreds of accidents.
1972 C. Mudie Motor Boats 108 The control of a car is exact and direct whereas a boat is on the skid pan of the sea.
1976 Norwich Mercury 17 Dec. 10/3 This thrilling game played at a terrific pace..on a greasy treacherous skidpan at Skinners Lane on Saturday.
1980 Sunday Times 21 Sept. (Colour Suppl.) 58/2 The first days of the course are instruction in evasive driving, done on a nearby skidpan.
skid-proof adj. of a road, etc.: on which one cannot skid or slip (esp. in wet conditions); designed to prevent skidding; hence as v. transitive, to render skid-proof.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > rough > not slippery
non-skid1908
skid-proof1937
the world > space > shape > unevenness > make uneven [verb (transitive)] > make rough > render skid-proof
skid-proof1937
1937 Daily Express 20 Feb. 10/2 Some roads are practically skid-proof, others not.
1958 Washington Post 25 Oct. b10/1 To skidproof concrete porch steps, it has long been the custom to sprinkle sand on freshly painted surfaces.
skid road n. (a) a way or track formed of skids ( 2d) along which logs are hauled; (b) North American, originally a downtown area frequented by loggers; now gen. = skid row n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs
flume1784
log-rollinga1792
drive1835
river-driving1843
river drive1845
sluice-way1851
sacking1860
timber drivea1861
skidding1877
log-running1878
skid road1880
rigging1897
swamping1902
log-drivea1904
high lead1905
high-lining1919
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > disreputable
purlieu1619
urban jungle1849
cardboard city1876
skid road1880
skid row1931
New Jack City1989
1880 7th Rep. Topogr. Surv. Adirondack Reg. 176 Advised that lumbermen had cut ‘skid-roads’ on which logs were drawn [etc.].
1906 Log of ‘Columbia’ i. 8/1 ‘We'll likely see him in town.’.. ‘He'll be in the Skid road somewhere.’
1925 Amer. Speech 1 135 When the logger of to-day speaks of the ‘skid-road’ he means the place where loggers gather when they are in town.
1940 Amer. Mercury Dec. 412 Most of the skid-road bars provide either a floor show..or a hill-billy band.
1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate iii. 98 Arriving in Dawson like some little tramp from Seattle's Skid Road.
1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 15 May 5/5 Young heroin users are replacing the Skid Road addicts in British Columbia.
1980 Washington Post 1 Mar. a13/4 In Seattle, where the ‘Skid Row’ term originated ‘from flophouses built along the ‘Skid Road’ of lumber being ‘skidded’ to the water front’, reminders of that age remain.
skid-way n. (see quot. 1893); also, an inclined way formed of skids ( 2d).
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > stand for logs ready for loading
skid-way1879
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 24 Dec. 9 The skidways through the woods are piled full of logs.
1893 Scribner's Mag. June 707/1 The skidway consists of two logs or timbers about ten feet apart, laid perpendicular to the log-road.., upon which a tier of logs is placed ready to be loaded on the sleighs.
Derivatives
ˈskidded adj. provided with a skid or skids.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [adjective] > provided with skid or skids
skidded1935
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [adjective] > provided with skid or s
skidded1935
1935 Charlottesville (Va.) Daily Progress 22 Feb. 1/1 He streaked off into the stratosphere at dawn today on a 2,447 mile flight to New York City where he planned to land on the wood skidded belly of the ship.
1961 Flight 80 471/2 The lift platform was variously adjusted to handle simple cargo, general ‘skidded’ cargo and fully loaded vehicles.
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skid mark n. something resembling a skid mark made by a vehicle; spec. (slang) a faecal stain, esp. on underwear.
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1968 B. Humphries Wonderful World Barry McKenzie (cartoon caption) Me old man [read ma] would have a stroke if she knew I'd passed out with skid marks on me Y-fronts!
1987 K. Lette Girls' Night Out (1989) 144 With an air of contrived casualness, Soula started to tidy up the room, pausing briefly by the mirror to pat her hair and remove the skidmarks of mascara beneath her eyes.
1992 I. Banks Crow Road vii. 160 You are a skid-mark on the lavatory bowl of life. But I respect you for it.
2000 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 282/2 So no more underwear with skid marks all over the apartment.
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North American slang. A dirty, unkempt person, esp. one who is habitually intoxicated by alcohol or drugs; (in later use) spec. (chiefly Canadian) applied to a young person belonging to a subculture characterized by dark, unkempt clothing, long hair, rebellious behaviour and drug-taking. [Perhaps after to hit the skids at sense 2g or skid row n. (compare quot. 1966).]
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1966 Hammond (Indiana) Times 13 June 1/6 The vacant strip houses are sleeping quarters for some of those who ‘hit the skids’. The skid row actually is on Plummer Street... The ‘skids’ congregate mostly within a two block stretch... There they wait for some one to come up with a bottle of wine.
1990 Canad. Press (Nexis) 17 Feb. The deaths hit all strata of school society..the jocks, the skids, the preppies.
2016 J. Keeso & J. Tierney Letterkenny (transcribed from TV programme) 1st Ser. Episode 5 [Wayne] Stewart! Fucking greasiest skid I ever seen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
skidv.1
/skɪd/, U.S. /skɪd/ 1.
a. transitive. To apply or fasten a skid or brake to (a wheel) in order to retard its motion; to lock (a wheel) in this way.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > drive a wheeled vehicle > apply brake to wheel
trig1591
notch1674
skid1674
roughlock1828
drag1829
spoke1854
brake1868
1674 J. Ray S. & E. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 77 To Skid a wheel: Rotam sufflaminare, with an iron hook fastned to the Axis to keep it from turning round upon the descent of a steep hill, Kent. [Hence in later Dicts.].
1859 C. Dickens Tale of Two Cities i. ii. 4 The guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent.
1860 Proc. Inst. Civil Engineers 19 495 If it is required to put on the breaks harder, and to skid the wheels.
1879 Man. Siege & Garrison Artillery Exercises 133 In order that the wheels may be skidded when necessary to check the recoil.
b. To push or drag (a person) along.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push or pull a person along
skid1881
1881 Times 2 Feb. 4/5 He was skidded along in front of the wheel of the cab.
2. Lumbering. To haul (logs) on or along skids; to pile or place on a skid-way. Also absol.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > transport logs
swamp1784
boom1798
snake1829
sluice1877
water1877
skid1878
tode1895
1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 6 Apr. Not one-fifth of the logs cut and skidded..have been banked.
1878 Lumberman's Gaz. 18 Dec. 426 Operators have been cutting and skidding for the past thirty or forty days.
1888 Scribner's Mag. Dec. 655/2 The logs are then ‘skidded’ by horses or oxen into skidways.
3. in extended use.1862 F. W. Jacomb in Peaks, Passes, & Glac. 2nd Ser. I. 244 We left at noon, and glissaded down the slopes to the Maison Blanche again. Mr. Mathews..skidded down with all his wonted agility.
a. intransitive. Of a wheel: To slip or be dragged along without revolving, esp. as the effect of having a skid or brake applied to it.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > skid > of wheels
skid1838
wheel slip1945
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 160/2 An engine always gets through its work better upon a wet day than a dry one... It is true, the wheels skid more.
1854 Trans. Philol. Soc. 84 A roller skids, when in a sharp turn it cuts up the turf.
1894 A. Robertson Nuggets 200 We..would suddenly skid, with the break on, down a steep hill.
b. To slip obliquely or sideways, esp. owing to the muddy, wet, or dusty state of the road; to side-slip. Usually said of cycle or motor-car wheels, but also of horse-vehicles or persons. Also, of the vehicle itself.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > slip or slide > obliquely
skid1884
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > skid
side-skid1906
skid1907
slew1914
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 12 May 10/2 While the steam-engine..was on its way to the fire the wheels ‘skidded’ against the kerb.
1886 C.T.C. Gaz. IV. 137 Enough weight on the steering-wheel to prevent it skidding at all.
1892 Liverpool Daily Post 4 July The back wheel of their machine skidded, throwing the lady under the vehicle.
1907 G. B. Shaw in Neolith Nov. 3 ‘The bus skidded.’ ‘So would any bus skid in this mud, going at that rate.’
1912 J. Hammond Motor Man. (ed. 14) iii. 101 To minimise the risk of a car skidding’ on greasy roads numerous devices have been introduced.
1926 E. F. Spanner Naviators i. 13 A car that looks as though it is going straight can be dodged, but one that skids about like a demented dog chasing its tail is not to be faced with assurance.
1927 R. Kipling Limits & Renewals (1932) 159 It was raining hard, and the car skidded badly.
1966 G. Greene Comedians iii. iii. 280 The car because of my momentary inattention skidded sideways.
c. Aeronautics. Of an aircraft: to move sideways, esp. away from the centre of curvature while turning. Cf. slip v.1 9c.
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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > fly [verb (intransitive)] > sideslip
side-slip1911
skid1911
slip1911
1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 9 Apr. (Mag.) 9/5 If the rag points up, the operator knows his machine is going down..but if it points to the side, the operator knows he is ‘skidding’.
1916 H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks 22 When an aeroplane is turned to the left or the right the centrifugal force of its momentum causes it to skid sideways and outwards away from the centre of the turn.
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 3 Oct. 35 He lost speed suddenly and skidded to the starboard.
1965 C. N. Van Deventer Introd. Gen. Aeronaut. x. 233/2 If the ball moves in the direction of the turn, it indicates that the airplane is slipping toward the inside of the turn... If the ball moves in the opposite direction, the airplane is skidding toward the outside of the turn.
d. figurative. To follow an incorrect or unprofitable course; to make a mistake, to err or fail. Also of prices, etc.: to fall or decline rapidly. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > fail or be unsuccessful [verb (intransitive)]
withsitc1330
fail1340
defaulta1382
errc1430
to fall (also go) by the wayside1526
misthrive1567
miss1599
to come bad, or no, speedc1600
shrink1608
abortivea1670
maroon1717
to flash in the pan1792
skunk1831
to go to the dickens1833
to miss fire1838
to fall flat1841
fizzle1847
to lose out1858
to fall down1873
to crap out1891
flivver1912
flop1919
skid1920
to lay an egg1929
to blow out1939
to strike out1946
bomb1963
to come (also have) a buster1968
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > be mistaken, err [verb (intransitive)]
dwelec900
haltc900
marOE
slidea1000
misfangOE
missOE
to have wough?c1225
misnimc1225
misrekec1275
mis-startc1275
err1303
to go wrongc1340
misgo1340
slipc1340
snapperc1380
forvay1390
to miss of ——c1395
to make a balkc1430
to run in ——1496
trip1509
fault1530
mistake1548
misreckon1584
misstep1605
warpa1616
solecize1627
hallucinate1652
nod1677
to go will1724
to fare astray (misliche, amiss)a1849
slip1890
skid1920
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (intransitive)] > decline in price or fall > suddenly or rapidly
break1870
plunge1870
tumble1886
slump1888
skid1976
1920 Literary Digest 22 May 120 Time was when the unsuccessful man merely failed, but these days, in a world scurrying about in motor-cars and breathing gasoline, he is said to ‘skid’.
1937 G. Frankau More of Us vi. 67 Next morning woke a damsel heavy-lidded To wonder had she not, or had she, skidded.
1962 ‘K. Orvis’ Damned & Destroyed iv. 29 He had skidded until he had become merely a brilliant young pianist.
1970 Computers & Humanities 5 11 Alabama Populists..tended mainly to be unsuccessful yeoman farmers who were skidding toward tenancy.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 21 Aug. 8/6 A good investment..if some unforeseen misfortune causes currencies to skid.
4. transitive. To cause (a vehicle, its wheels, etc.) to skid; to turn (a corner, etc.) by means of a skidding movement.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (transitive)] > cause to skid
skid1924
1924 ‘J. Sutherland’ Circle of Stars xxiii. 238 Carter skidded the Ford to a standstill.
1928 Sunday Express 19 Aug. 1/1 Viscount Curzon..was cheered as he skilfully skidded the corners.
1931 G. le Q. Martel In Wake of Tank 84 A turn through to a right angle absorbed so much power in skidding the track round that it was usually necessary to change down to first gear on the machine.
Derivatives
ˈskidder n. (a) , a lumberman who hauls logs along the skids to the skidway; (b) a tractor or other machine for skidding logs.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > one who
rafter1741
driver1825
river-driver1825
rear crew1851
loadera1862
skidder1870
floater1889
river hog1902
river rat1905
boom-man1908
river pig1908
rearing crew1944
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumbering equipment > log-hauling engine or contrivance
carry-log1775
skidder1870
go-devil1871
yarder1911
1870 Overland Monthly V. 56/1 Another, called the ‘skidder’, skids the road.
1883 in Cent. Dict. The skidders haul the logs to the pile.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 Bummer, a small truck with two low wheels and a long pole, used in skidding logs. Syn.: drag cart, skidder.
1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I (1946) 184 These toots were the signals given by the ‘whistle punk’ to direct the operations of the skidder bringing in the logs.
1965 Weekend Mag. 2 Oct. 3/3 Then it lays the denuded trunk on the ground and another machine, called ‘a skidder’, takes it to a landing area where it is cut into pulpwood lengths.
1976 New Yorker 3 May 52/2 The skidder, which vaguely resembles a pair of tractors coupled together..replaced the horse not long ago as the means of ‘twitching’ a tree..from the cutter to the truck.
ˈskidding adj.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > slipping or sliding > obliquely
skidding1897
side-slipping1916
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [adjective] > skidding
skidding1897
unscrewed1962
1897 Daily News 31 Dec. 3/1 Skidding 'buses, and the fog silence.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 32 Bummer, a small truck with two low wheels and a long pole, used in skidding logs. Syn.: drag cart, skidder.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
skidv.2
/skɪd/, U.S. /skɪd/ rare.
1. intransitive. To run or go quickly, to scud. Also, = scud v.1 2.
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the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)]
lakeOE
flyOE
runOE
scour13..
jace1393
hie1398
spina1400
fleetc1400
glentc1400
stripc1400
suea1450
carryc1450
speed1488
scud1532
streek1598
winga1616
to clip it1616
hackney1617
swifta1618
whirryc1630
dust1673
whew1684
race1702
stroke1735
cut1797
spank1807
skid1815
speela1818
crack1824
skimmer1824
slap1827
clip1832
skeet1838
marvel1841
lick1850
travel1850
rush1852
zip1852
sail1876
rabbit1887
move1906
high-tail1908
to ball the jack1914
buzz1914
shift1922
giddap1938
burn1942
hoosh1943
bomb1966
shred1977
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > sail before the wind
scud1582
spoon1588
spoom1628
to stand down1635
to bear down1671
skid1815
to roll down to St. Helena1834
1815 F. Burney Jrnl. in Jrnls & Lett. (1980) VIII. 414 They ran skidding down the Aisle of the Chapel..like frightened Hares.
1891 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads (1892) 16 You can skid up the trees, but you don't get away from the guns!
1940 L. MacNeice Last Ditch 32 Toy sail skidding on Whitestone Pond at the peak of London.
2. transitive. = scud v.1 5a.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > a missile or projectile > flat > so that it skims > on water
skid1891
1891 in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1897 G. B. Shaw Let. 1 Mar. in E. Terry & G. B. Shaw Corr. (1931) 159 Get ten sovereigns and skid them out from the beach into the sea.
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