Meaning & use
Skids
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Runners or supports on which a heavy object slides or is dragged.
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Workers placed the crate on wooden skids to drag it across the warehouse floor.
The company's reputation has been on the skids since the scandal broke.
A note on using this word
The idiom 'on the skids' means in a state of decline or heading toward failure.
Words with a similar meaning
runners
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