Skid | Mean of skid in English Dictionary

/ˈskɪd/

• Verb
• to slide along a road or other surface in an uncontrolled way
1. The truck skidded on/across the icy road.
2. The car skidded off the road and into the gully.
3. He slammed on the brakes, and the car skidded to a halt.
4. I skidded on the ice and fell.
• Noun
• a sudden, uncontrolled sliding movement
1. The car hit a patch of ice and went into a skid.
2. The police measured the skid marks [=marks made by a skidding vehicle] on the road.
• one of a pair of long narrow parts on which a helicopter or airplane rests
1. the skids of a helicopter

• a series of losses that happen one after the other
1. This victory ends a five-game skid.
• to begin to fail or get worse very suddenly and quickly
1. After he was injured his career hit the skids.
2. The stock market has hit the skids.
• failing or getting worse
1. The company is on the skids.
2. Her marriage was on the skids.
• to make (something or someone) likely or certain to fail
1. He scored the goal that put the skids under our hopes for victory.