Used a firehouse pole

The answer

SLID

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the SLID answer page.

Used 19 times across 14 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 1998. It appears in 9 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for SLID

Every other clue in this collection answered by SLID, most used first.

• Lost traction - used 173 times, most recently in 2026
• Glided - used 69 times, most recently in 2025
• Skidded - used 60 times, most recently in 2026
• Coasted - used 30 times, most recently in 2025
• Moved smoothly - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Went down a chute - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Declined - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Hit the dirt - used 10 times, most recently in 2002
• Lost one's footing - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Slipped - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Tried to beat the tag - used 8 times, most recently in 2024
• Avoided a tag, perhaps - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Reached base, in a way - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
• Rode the banister - used 7 times, most recently in 2006
• Eluded the tag - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Skated - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Tobogganed - used 6 times, most recently in 2007

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Used to be - WERE, used 162 times
• Used a loom - WOVE, used 70 times
• Pole, e.g. - SLAV, used 57 times
• Used up - GONE, used 53 times
• Ship's pole - MAST, used 50 times
• Pole, for one - SLAV, used 38 times

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