- the movement of a vehicle when it suddenly slides to one side because you have lost control of it
- The motorbike went into a skid.
- The skid marks on the road showed how fast the car had been travelling.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + skid- get into
- go into
- mark
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- a part that is on the bottom of some aircraft, next to the wheels, and is used for landing
- the skids of a helicopter
Word Originlate 17th cent. (as a noun in the sense ‘supporting beam’): perhaps related to Old Norse skíth ‘billet, snowshoe’.
Idioms
See skid in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe 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.
put the skids under somebody/something
- (informal) to stop somebody/something from being successful or making progressTopics Difficulty and failurec2
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