the skids
溜冰场,滑冰场,滑板车,溜须拍马
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Definitions
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- : a plank, bar, log, or the like, especially one of a pair, on which something heavy may be slid or rolled along.
- : one of a number of such logs or timbers forming a skidway.
- : a low mobile platform on which goods are placed for ease in handling, moving, etc.Compare stillage.
- : a plank, log, low platform, etc., on or by which a load is supported.
- : Nautical. any of a number of parallel beams or timbers fixed in place as a raised support for boats, spars, etc.any of a number of timbers on which a heavy object is placed to be shoved along on rollers or slid.an arrangement of planks serving as a runway for cargo.an arrangement of planks serving as a fender to protect the side of a vessel during transfer of cargo.sidewise motion of a vessel; leeway.
- : a shoe or some other choke or drag for preventing the wheel of a vehicle from rotating, as when descending a hill.
- : a runner on the under part of some airplanes, enabling the aircraft to slide along the ground when landing.
- : an unexpected or uncontrollable sliding on a smooth surface by something not rotating, especially an oblique or wavering veering by a vehicle or its tires: The bus went into a skid on the icy road.
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skid·ded, skid·ding.
- : to place on or slide along a skid.
- : to check the motion of with a skid: She skidded her skates to a stop.
- : to cause to go into a skid: to skid the car into a turn.
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skid·ded, skid·ding.
- : to slide along without rotating, as a wheel to which a brake has been applied.
- : to slip or slide sideways, as an automobile in turning a corner rapidly.
- : to slide forward under the force of momentum after forward motion has been braked, as a vehicle.
- : to slide sideways, away from the center of the curve described in turning.Compare slip.
Phrases
- skid row
- on the skids
- put the skids on
- put the skids under
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Instead, the narrative this time around is that of a former golden boy on the skids, turning himself around to land the untouchable goddess who once loved him.
If we lose the skid, we not only lose our workforce, but we lose our culture.
Ditto if a pilot is setting up to toe the skid of a helicopter into an Alaskan face to unload skiers and the ten-knot headwind shifts to a ten-knot tailwind.
The Blackhawks looked like the early choice after a hot start — with over a 60 percent chance in early March — but a recent skid has coincided with a surge for the Nashville Predators, who seemed dead in the water early.
Downtown L.A. was basically just Skid Row back then, and we closed it down to shoot that shootout sequence.
I did think you had to end up on skid row if you were an alcoholic.
But today Skid Row is in the news—for all the wrong reasons.
Today Skid Row resembles a Third World tent city teeming with sleeping bags, shopping carts, and people with nowhere else to go.
If Ron Johnson was running any faster from the Tea Party he'd leave skid marks.
The blade wabbled, took a mad skid for the surface, and the handles hit me a blow in the ribs which knocked my breath out.
They are goin' to skid the butt log again, and they swear that if you cull it again, they will kill you.
The car went into a wild skid and Salt thereafter devoted his attention strictly to driving.
Though the driver applied the foot brake with quick stabs, the car went into a disastrous skid.
Got a sleigh fixed, hemlock boughs and a cover of robes and blankets, and Skid'll drive careful.