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lids

n. (plural of lid English)

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LIDS

LIDS or lids may refer to:

  • MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, an interdisciplinary research laboratory of MIT
  • Linux Intrusion Detection System, a patch to the Linux kernel and associated administrative tools that enhances the kernel's security
  • Lids (store), a store specializing in caps, owned by Hat World
  • Low Impact Docking System, a space vehicle mating system designed by NASA
  • Local Inmate Database System, a prison specific program containing all prisoner information
  • Log-based Intrusion Detection System, the tool to detect attacks on a network, computer or application using logs
  • "Lids", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
Lids (store)

Hat World Inc. is an American retailer specializing in athletic headwear. It primarily operates under the LIDS and Hat World brands with stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. The majority of the stores operate in shopping malls and factory outlet centers. The company was founded in 1995 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lids sold over 6000 hats during its first five years of operation.

Hat World Inc. was acquired in April 2004 by footwear retailer Genesco Inc. and now operates as a subsidiary. The first store opened at Tippecanoe Mall in Lafayette, Indiana.

The LIDS Sports Group, operating within Hat World, Inc., comprises the LIDS retail headwear stores, the LIDS Locker Room specialty fan retail chain, the LIDS Clubhouse retail stores, the LIDS Team Sports wholesale team sports business and its Internet businesses, www.lids.com, www.lids.ca, and www.lidsteamsports.com. Operating out of Indianapolis, Indiana, the retail businesses make up more than 975 mall-based, airport, street level and factory outlet locations nationwide, and in Canada and Puerto Rico. LIDS retail stores offer officially-licensed and branded college, major professional sports teams, as well as other specialty fashion categories all in the latest styles and colors. LIDS Locker Room is a mall-based retailer of sports headwear, apparel, accessories, and novelties. Most LIDS and LIDS Locker Room stores also offer custom embroidery capability. LIDS Clubhouse operates team-specific professional sports and university athletics retail stores and e-commerce websites. LIDS Team Sports is a full-service team uniform and apparel dealer, custom screen printer, embroidery and sporting goods distributor. Hat World, Inc. is a subsidiary of Genesco Inc.

Usage examples of "lids".

As he knelt over her she watched from beneath half- closed lids and tried again.

Her lids fluttered and without any further coaxing, she drifted into sleep.

As her lids lifted she could make out the image of a haggard, unshaven Jamie beside her.

He lifted his head and studied the way she looked, her lips warm and moist, her lids heavy with passion.

His lips roamed her face, touching lightly across her lids, her brow, her temple.

I thought it was we three who must be appearing ridiculous for they both were looking at us through narrowed lids in a scrutinizing, weighing-up fashion, as if we were some oddities that they could not really make out.

And now she blinked her eyes and peered at me through narrowed lids as if seeing me from a different angle.

There was blood in my eyes, blood that was gumming the lids together and making me blind.

He consoled himself with her luminous eyes, the lids darkened with kohl, and with what he could make out of her features behind the gauzy fabric.

Through wavering lids, Gavril saw a figure bending over him in the night.

Feigning sleep, Gavril watched with half-closed lids, curious to know what he was doing.

Next morning the din from the dustbin lids had hardly subsided when the grim realisation drove into my brain.

Bent double, small bottom outthrust, he hurled pans, lids, brushes behind him with intense dedication till the cupboard was empty.

But that made things worse, for behind her closed lids she could see, in vivid detail and with horrible clarity, the crowd closing in on the helpless Madame vo Belles andre.

The glass eyes concealed for so long behind domed steel lids were now wide open, their owner disturbingly awake.