lid

noun

The top or cover of a container.

(slang) A cap or hat.

(slang) One ounce of cannabis.

(figurative) A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.

(biology) An operculum or other lid-like cover.

(microelectronics) A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.

(slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.

(slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.

(surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.

(Liverpool, slang) A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid).

Clipping of eyelid. [A thin skin membrane that covers and moves over an eye.]

verb

(transitive) To put a lid on (something).

Synonyms for lid

eyelidn operculumn coverv hatn capn chapeaun bungn spigotn

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