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lid
noun- a hat US, 1896
- “May I take your hat?” I snapped out of it long enough to hand over my lid. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 63, 1947
- “We don’t want to be around when old Mushmouth comes after his lid.” — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 363, 1953
- “Better wear this lid.” He offered me a very battered and shapeless old straw hat. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 36, 1957
- The kid with the lid and the proper dark glasses, will soon dig which chick will go for the passes. — Dan Burley, Diggeth Thou?, p. 7, 1959
- I picked up my lid and split. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 18, 1973
- He was always pressed; nothing but the best / Vines and kicks he had / A thirty-dollar lid and gloves of kid / Man his threads were bad. — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 97, 1976
- The bloke that won it was thrilled pink and I’m down one lid. Cost me $27 for another one. — Sam Weller, Old Bastards I Have Met, p. 27, 1979
- My lid was telescoped into a pork-pie, cocked stupidly on the side of my long head. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Airtight Willie and Me, p. 7, 1979
- See, when the Dodgers moved to Los Angeles the general manager donated the old caps to the state. * * * Ever since, when he sees one of those lids he spooks, like he’s smelling the flowers on his own grave. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 168, 1990
- a motorcyle helmet with face protection US, 1994
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 5, Spring 1994
- a submarine hatch cover UK, 1979
Reported by John Malin, 1979. - in a card game, the top card of the deck US
- — George Percy, The Language of Poker, p. 52, 1988
- an approximate measure (variously twenty-two grams, or one to two ounces) of loose, uncleaned marijuana US, 1966
Derived from the lid of a tobacco tin, a convenient measure of sufficient marijuana to roll about forty cigarettes. - The fact that I make more money than the cat who sells one lid of grass a week–now, that’s his choice and this is my choice. — Leonard Wolfe (Editor), Voices from the Love Generation, p. 187, 1968
- The kidnappings were nothing fancy: a young surfer at the
- Pompano Pier, lured to a waiting Cadillac with a lid of fresh Colombian red[.] — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 178, 1986
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 71, 1996
- The $10 lid was fading into the ’60s, to be replaced by Bud and Thai stick — Editors Ben is Dead, Retrohell, p. 60, 1997
- He hit you with lids, caps, keys, tabs, nickel bags, blotters, buttons, spoons and everything from milligrams to boatloads. — Robert Sabbag, A Way with the Spoon [The Howard Marks Book of Dope Stories], p. 351, 1998
- the maximum prison sentence allowed by law US
- “Give him the lid,” Peed said. “I’m not sure that’s a good idea, Garland,” Brise said. “His priors don’t add up.” — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 377, 1993
▶ on its lid
(of a vehicle) overturned US, 2004
Collected by John Thompson of Hendersonville, North Carolina, 2004.▶ out of your lid
drug-intoxicated UK- [T]hey were speeding out of their lids. — Will Birch, No Sleep Till Canvey Island, p. 202, 2003
▶ put the lid on; put the tin lid on
to conceal something; to bring some activity or enterprise to an (unwelcome) end UK, 1909- [W]hat put the tin lid on it was what she had witnessed over the past half-hour. — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 115, 2002
- [A]ccording to Len, who oversaw such things, Rick’s astronomical expenses were threatening to blow us all out of the water. Len said we had to “put the lid on it” and that he’d “have a word”. — The Guardian, 6 June 2002
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