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Skid

noun

(Written also skeed)

One of a pair of planks used to make a track for rolling or sliding objects.

A restraint provided when the brake linings are moved hydraulically against the brake drum to retard the wheel's rotation. Synonyms: brake shoe, shoe.

An unexpected slide. Synonyms: sideslip, slip.

verb

(past & past part. skidded; pres. part. skidding)

Slide without control.

Elevate onto skids.

Apply a brake or skid to.

Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner. Synonyms: slew, slide, slip, slue.

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"Skid" Quotes from Famous Books

... time we have any trouble from the cats is one evening when Pop comes home and the two kittens skid down the hall between his legs, with Cat after them. He scales his hat at the lot of them and roars down the hall to me, "Hey, Davey! When are you getting rid of these cats? I'm not fixing to start an ...

— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville

... still stuck to his old horse, and to the ancient vehicle which had been the signal of distress before so many doors for forty years. "I can trust old Nettie," he would say. "She doesn't freeze her radiator on cold nights, she doesn't skid, and if I drop asleep she'll take me home and into my own barn, which is more than any ...

— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... man may lose himself if he chooses, and that by the same token it is a good place to look for "my wandering boy tonight." I can believe all this especially on Third street. Third street should be called by some other name or it should have a nickname. If it were in Seattle it would be known as "skid row." Third street ...

— Vignettes of San Francisco • Almira Bailey

... laying her hand on mine, "old books and old friends are best, and I should think you had really rather have a nice safe old car than any new one. Thieves don't take old cars, as you know. And you can't insure them, that's a comfort! And cars don't skid and collide just because they are old, do they? And you never have to scold the children about the paint and—and the old thing does go—what do you think Lamb ...

— The Hills of Hingham • Dallas Lore Sharp

... there would come interruptions, like iron bars striking dark, jagged holes in the tissue of life. From time to time I heard inexplicable noises—the whirring of motors, the skid-skid of tires on invisible streets, the rumble of carts around corners of a world where there were no carts. Again and again those moments of confusion would come over me, when I seemed to be looking into two worlds at once, one superimposed ...

— The Chamber of Life • Green Peyton Wertenbaker

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