Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a derog. term for a Jewish person.

1962		F. Norman Guntz 192: While I was having this elevated chat with the front wheel skid.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1976		(ref. to 1928) R. Barnes Coronation Cups and Jam Jars 96: The slang words for Yid were ‘tea pot lid’, or ‘backward skid’.
1977		D. Powis Signs of Crime 184: Front-wheel (skid) or front-wheeler Jew (yid).
1989		M. Amis London Fields 81: ‘I know what you are. A four-wheel Sherman.’ An explanation was effortfully supplied. Four-wheel = four-wheel skid = yid. Sherman = Sherman tank = yank.
2020		Twitter 2 Nov. 🌐 You’ve done marvels for front wheelers and I have no doubt that you will continue to do so.
2024		J. Meades Empty Wigs (t/s) 842: ‘Yids. Four by twos. Oven dodgers. Four wheel -’.

2. (N.Z. prison) a child.

2001

D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 167/2: skid n. a child.