skid

Universal Words 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. 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.