verb, noun
verb (-dd-) [V] (usually of a vehicle) to slide sideways or forwards in an uncontrolled way:
The car skidded on the ice and went straight into the wall. * She could feel they were skidding. * The taxi skidded to a halt just in time. * Her foot skidded on the wet floor and she fell heavily.
Part of speech: noun
1 the movement of a vehicle when it suddenly slides sideways in an uncontrolled way:
The motorbike went into a skid. * The skid marks on the road showed how fast the car had been travelling.
2 a part that is underneath some aircraft, beside the wheels, and is used for landing:
the skids of a helicopter
IDIOMS
put the skids under sb/sth (informal) to stop sb/sth from being successful or making progress
be on the skids (informal) to be in a bad situation that will get worse:
The government was on the skids for months before the election.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is skid a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, skid is tagged as noun.
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