A child was killed when one of its 737s skidded off a runway in Chicago in icy conditions and struck a car.
Last December a Continental 737 taking off from Denver aborted at the last second and, in icy conditions, skidded into a ravine.
I went racing, but a half mile north I skidded into the ditch.
As we came in, we found we had a belly landing on our hands, so we skidded her in.
He skidded and fell, and had to run at a slower pace to keep his footing.
His foot hit some of the rubble on the ground at the last second, and he skidded.
One piece of it skidded away, clattered down into the depths.
Shattered rock was thick on the floor, and they skidded and tumbled over it.
I skidded—or the bicycle did—and I fell off and cut my wrist.
Lester flopped heavily, and skidded across the bottom of the 'drome.
c.1600, "beam or plank on which something rests," especially on which something heavy can be rolled from place to place (1782), of uncertain origin, probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse skið "stick of wood" (see ski (n.)). As "a sliding along" from 1890; specifically of motor vehicles from 1903. Skid-mark is from 1914.
In the timber regions of the American West, skids laid down one after another to form a road were "a poor thing for pleasure walks, but admirably adapted for hauling logs on the ground with a minimum of friction" ["Out West" magazine, October 1903]. A skid as something used to facilitate downhill motion led to figurative phrases such as hit the skids "go into rapid decline" (1909), and cf. skid row.
1670s, "apply a skid to (a wheel, to keep it from turning)," from skid (n.). Meaning "slide along" first recorded 1838; extended sense of "slip sideways" (on a wet road, etc.) first recorded 1884. The original notion is of a block of wood for stopping a wheel; the modern senses are from the notion of a wheel slipping when blocked from revolving.
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skell (1980s+ New York City police)
