▪ I. roid, n. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
Brit. /rɔɪd/, U.S. /rɔɪd/
Forms: 19– roid, 19– 'roid
[Shortened <steroid n.]
An anabolic steroid, when taken for its muscle-building properties by an athlete, a bodybuilder, etc.
Anabolic steroids are included in the International Olympic Committee's list of banned substances.
| 1980 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 21 Dec. vi. 78/5 Please be advised that no one uses ‘oids’, but rather ‘roids’, instead of steroids. 1988 Musclemag Nov. 20/3 There are some bodybuilders and powerlifters who say it's as good as roids, but with none of the side-effects. 1999 Arizona Republic (Electronic ed.) 7 Jan. The four-month Operation Roid Raid began with allegations that students at Shadow Mountain High School in north Phoenix were buying steroids on the black market. |
Compounds. roid rage n. (an outburst of) heightened aggression manifested as a side-effect of anabolic steroid use.
| 1987 San Diego Union-Tribune 21 July d7/3 Anabolic steroids..do create psychological effects. You hear references to *'Roid Rage. 1999 Evening Standard (Electronic ed.) 11 Oct. ‘Roid rage’ is the unstated subtext whenever huge linemen cause problems. |
▪ II. roid, a. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 roide, royd(e, rode (rude).
[a. OF. roide, rode (also northern reide, mod.F. raide):—L. rigid-um rigid a., but in some cases (esp. in Sc. texts) perh. a variant or scribal alteration of rude a.]
1. Stout, strong; violent, rough.
| a 1400–50 Alexander (Dubl. MS.) 829* The kyng of þatt cuntree..Had rasyd vp a rode hoste. c 1400 Destr. Troy 1984 A rak and a royde wynde rose in hor saile. Ibid. 4428 A Roid beste vnreasonable, þat no Rule holdes. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. i. 27 Þus eftyr a royde harsk begynnynge Hapnyt a fast and gud endynge. c 1470 Henry Wallace xi. 1362 For all thi roid rahress, Thow has na charge. |
| 1883 Huddersfield Gloss. s.v., A roid night is a stormy one; roid work is a quarrel. |
2. Rude, large, great, unwieldy.
| a 1400 Cursor M. 23911 (Gött.), For-sake þu noght þis roide werk, For þou it roid [Cott. rude] and stubil be, It es in worschip wroght of þe. c 1400 York Myst. xxx. 175 Youre richesse schal be refte you þat is rude [rime noyed, stroyed]. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6025 Þe bell it was so grete and royde Þat of þe caryage he was oft noyde. c 1470 Henry Wallace v. 77 Ȝhett schede he thaim, a full royd slope was maid. |
3. Stiff. rare—1.
| c 1477 Caxton Jason 25 The Geant roose also, but hit was not lightly for his legges were royde. |
▪ III. roid(e
obs. forms of rood, royd.