Definitions for skids

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IPA: /skɪd/

Skids is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 36 anagrams from letters in skids (dikss).

Definitions for skids

noun

1. a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
2. one of a number of such logs or timbers forming a skidway.
3. a low mobile platform on which goods are placed for ease in handling, moving, etc. Compare stillage.
4. a plank, log, low platform, etc., on or by which a load is supported.
5. Nautical. any of a number of parallel beams or timbers fixed in place as a raised support for boats, spars, etc. any of a number of timbers on which a heavy object is placed to be shoved along on rollers or slid. an arrangement of planks serving as a runway for cargo. an arrangement of planks serving as a fender to protect the side of a vessel during transfer of cargo. sidewise motion of a vessel; leeway.
6. a shoe or some other choke or drag for preventing the wheel of a vehicle from rotating, as when descending a hill.
7. a runner on the under part of some airplanes, enabling the aircraft to slide along the ground when landing.
8. an unexpected or uncontrollable sliding on a smooth surface by something not rotating, especially an oblique or wavering veering by a vehicle or its tires:

Idioms

1. on the skids, Slang. in the process of decline or deterioration:
2. put the skids under, Informal. to bring about the downfall of; cause to fail:
3. the skids, Informal. the downward path to ruin, poverty, or depravity:

verb (used with object)

1. to place on or slide along a skid.
2. to check the motion of with a skid:
3. to cause to go into a skid:

verb (used without object)

1. to slide along without rotating, as a wheel to which a brake has been applied.
2. to slip or slide sideways, as an automobile in turning a corner rapidly.
3. to slide forward under the force of momentum after forward motion has been braked, as a vehicle.
4. (of an airplane when not banked sufficiently) to slide sideways, away from the center of the curve described in turning. Compare slip1 (def 15).

Origin of skids

1600-10; 1925-30 for def 18; apparently Old Norse skith (noun), cognate with Old English scīd thin slip of wood; see ski

Examples for skids

"I'm getting twenty-five a week," says skid, lookin' him straight between the eyes.

They're givin' a farewell dinner dance for her, and skid is on the list.

skid he flushes some behind the ears; but he only bows and says he's much obliged.

The remaining 18 presumably “had contact with the patients in skid Row,” said Fielding.

The skid at which he had pointed was loaded with cases of M504 submachine guns.

Today skid Row resembles a Third World tent city teeming with sleeping bags, shopping carts, and people with nowhere else to go.

I did think you had to end up on skid row if you were an alcoholic.

But today skid Row is in the news—for all the wrong reasons.

Why, man alive, skid's one of the chaps that's runnin' your old gent's trust.

Downtown L.A. was basically just skid Row back then, and we closed it down to shoot that shootout sequence.