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NOUN:
  1. The act of sliding or slipping over a surface, often sideways.
    1. A plank, log, or timber, usually one of a pair, used as a support or as a track for sliding or rolling heavy objects.
    2. A pallet for loading or handling goods, especially one having solid sideboards and no bottom.
    3. One of several logs or timbers forming a skid road.
  3. skids Nautical A wooden framework attached to the side of a ship to prevent damage, as when unloading.
  4. A shoe or drag applying pressure to a wheel to brake a vehicle.
  5. A runner in the landing gear of certain aircraft.
  6. skids Slang A path to ruin or failure: His career hit the skids. Her life is now on the skids.
VERB:
skid·ded, skid·ding, skids
VERB:
intr.
  1. To slide sideways while moving because of loss of traction: The truck skidded on a patch of ice. See Synonyms at slide.
  2. To slide without revolving: wheels skidding on oily pavement.
  3. To move sideways in a turn because of insufficient banking. Used of an airplane.
VERB:
tr.
  1. To brake (a wheel) with a skid.
  2. To haul on a skid or skids.
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps of Scandinavian origin


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