Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (usu. Aus.) a drink.

1890		Queenslander 16 Aug. 298/3: Nock off the tid.
1899		Illus. Police News 4 Feb. 5/2: They chatted for an hour, and he said: ‘We’ll have a tid.’ / [...] / His manner was so pressing that she did as she was bid.
1907		N.Z. Truth 30 Nov. 2/3: The four of us goes for a drive out [...] to a nice quiet pub. We had more tids there.
1909		Sun. Times (Perth) 7 Mar. 45/7: We never then thought / At last we’d resort / To sipping a tuppenny tid.
1912		Sun. Times (Perth) 17 Mar. 21/3: The old Cockney rhyming slang for drink was ‘Tiddley Wink’. This was shortened to ‘Tiddley’, and Australia reduced it to ‘Tid’.

2. drinking, alcohol.

1907

Sun. Times (Perth) 19 May 4/8: ‘E goes out backin’ gees or takes to tid.

3. (Aus.) a drunkard.

1924		E.G. Murphy ‘’Is ’Arp’ Dryblower’s Verses 10: ‘I s’pose,’ a beery mourner said / As someone ordered in a tid, / ‘’E’s got an ’alo round ’ees ’ead.’.
1941		Baker Popular Dict. Aus. Sl.
1955		N. Pulliam I Travelled a Lonely Land (1957) 61: Th’ hell you say, you big tid. Don’t try to cut the flash with me. That bushfire blonde didn’t give you the first looko.