skid
n.— «We were going around in the pit having a good time, when a skin took down a street-kid who’s name I cannot remember. He hit him and called him a skid, who does nothing but loot in the garbage.…We got out and the the skins were waiting. A fight broke up between some of the skins and the people who they called “Skids.”» —“Fuck White Supremist Skinheads!” by holyramensw in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada HoLY()RAmEN-Sw…a.k.a.(JaY)‘s Blurty May 19, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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