Sekirov Dictionary

lid

/lɪd/

noun 13
verb 1
forms 3
phrases 6

noun13

The top or cover of a container.
An operculum or other lid-like cover.
A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
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Clipping of eyelid.
- But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake. — 1891
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(figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
- Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company. — 2011
(slang) A cap or hat.
(slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
(slang) One ounce of cannabis.
(slang) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
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(Australia, slang) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
- Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes. — 2001
One's mind.
(slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
The sky.

verb1

To put a lid on (something).

forms

lidded · lidding · lids

Phrases with lid

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