lid

Meaning

1. The top or cover of a container.
2. (slang) A cap or hat.
3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
4. (slang) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
7. Clipping of eyelid.
8. A hermetically sealed top piece on a microchip such as the integrated heat spreader on a CPU.
9. A restraint or control, as when "putting a lid" on something.
10. A kid (from the rhyming slang bin lid)

cover

cap

landing deck

fall-board

shaft collar

Flg flange

protecting case

lock entrance

top of head

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɪd/

From Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).