Definitions for lid

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Spelling: [lid]

IPA: /lɪd/

Lid is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in lid (dil).

Definitions for lid

noun

1. a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
2. an eyelid.
3. a restraint, ceiling, or curb, as on prices or news.
4. Slang. a hat, cap, or other head covering.
5. the cover of the capsule; operculum. the upper section of a pyxidium.
6. Slang. one ounce of marijuana.

Idioms

1. blow / flip one's lid, Slang. to lose control, especially to rage hysterically: Also, flip one's wig.
2. blow the lid off, Informal. to expose to public view, especially to reveal something scandalous, illegal, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to supply or cover with a lid.

Origin of lid

before 1000; Middle English; Old English hlid; cognate with Dutch, German lid, Old Norse hlith gate, gateway

Examples for lid

“I want to use information to put a lid on that local corruption before it gets too extreme,” Simon told The Daily Beast.

Only one peep; and then the lid shall be shut down as safely as ever!

When the lid was in position, hot coals were put on he top of it.

A Saudi Arabian television ad for Viagra shows a man struggling to push a straw through the lid of his beverage.

Crumbs avoided advertising and contracted production out, thus keeping a lid on costs.

In the middle of the room was that box you saw, with the lid open.

Then put the cover, or lid, on as in Fig. 13, but do not tighten it.

Trying to keep a lid on yet more rumors about your sexuality.

“Hard hat…heavy jacket…welding gloves…fish landing net…a sheet…a big Tupperware bin with a lid,” he says.

He crumpled the poster and inserted it beneath the lid of his iron stove.