"hit the skids" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-hit the skids.ogg [Australia] Forms: hits the skids [present, singular, third-person], hitting the skids [participle, present], hit the skids [participle, past], hit the skids [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|hit<,,hit> the skids}} hit the skids (third-person singular simple present hits the skids, present participle hitting the skids, simple past and past participle hit the skids)
  1. (intransitive, originally US) To fail; to decline. Tags: intransitive Related terms: on the skids, skid row

Inflected forms

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