Usually means: Sliding marks left by tires.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. skids: Merriam-Webster
  2. skids: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skids: Collins English Dictionary
  4. skids: Vocabulary.com
  5. Skids, skids: Wordnik
  6. skids: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. skids: Wiktionary
  8. skids, the skids: Dictionary.com
  9. skids: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Skids (EP), Skids (Transformers), Skids (band), Skids (comics), Skids, The Skids: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. skids: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skids: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. skids: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skids, skids: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. skids: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. skids: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (skid)

noun:  An out-of-control sliding motion as would result from applying the brakes too hard in a car.
noun:  A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill.
noun:  (by extension) A hook attached to a chain, used for the same purpose.
noun:  A piece of timber or other material used as a support, or to receive pressure.
noun:  A runner of a sled.
noun:  A ski-shaped runner or supporting surface as found on a helicopter or other aircraft in place of wheels.
noun:  A basic platform for the storage and transport of goods, machinery or equipment, later developed into the pallet.
noun:  One of a pair of horizontal rails or timbers for supporting anything, such as a boat or barrel.
noun:  (aviation) A banked sideslip where the aircraft's nose is yawed towards the low wing, often due to excessive rudder input.
noun:  (sports) A losing streak.
verb:  (intransitive) (of a wheel, sled runner, or vehicle tracks) To slide along the ground, without the rotary motion that wheels or tracks would normally have.
verb:  (intransitive) To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard, the wheels sliding with limited spinning.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, aviation) To operate an aircraft in a banked sideslip with the nose yawed towards the low wing.
verb:  (transitive) To protect or support with a skid or skids.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move on skids.
verb:  (transitive) To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
noun:  (Internet slang) A stepchild.
noun:  (Internet slang) A script kiddie.
verb:  (Internet slang) To steal or copy, especially computer code.
noun:  (UK, slang, obsolete) A sovereign (old coin).
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