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"skid" Definition

  1. a sovereign. Fashionable slang. Occasionally SKIV.
  2. or SKIDPAN, an instrument for locking the wheel of a coach when going down hill. It is often said that a talkative person might put the SKID on, with advantage to his listeners, if not to himself.

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Position in the dictionary: 3171 of 4022 slang words.
Next words in the dictionary: skied, skied., skilligolee, skilly, skimmery, skin, skin-the-lamb, skinflint, skinner, skipper
Previous words in the dictionary: skedaddle, sizings., sizers, size, sixty-per-cent, sixty, sixes and sevens, six-water grog, sivvy, sit-upons

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