lid

plural lids

1. The top or cover of a container.
2. slangA cap or hat.

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   “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

3. slangOne ounce of cannabis.
4. AustraliaslanghobbiesA bodyboard or bodyboarder.

   the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders

   2003 August, Kneelo Knews

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   Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.

   2001, realsurf.com message board

5. biologyAn operculum or other lid-like cover.
6. slangA motorcyclist's crash helmet.
7. slangIn amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
8. abbreviationclippingClipping 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, Oscar Wilde, chapter I, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 2

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   Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…].

   1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC

9. A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
10. figurativelyA 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, Dave Ramsey, EntreLeadership, page 11

11. slangLiverpoolA kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).
12. African-American VernacularThe sky.
13. African-American VernacularOne's mind.

present singular third person lids · participle present lidding · participle past lidded · past lidded

1. transitiveTo put a lid on (something).

   Antonyms: unlid