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The slang term loid means to open something locked, such as a door or window, by sliding something thin between the lock and the door, such as a piece of celluloid or a credit card.

Typically, to loid a locked door is to slide something thin through the crack between the door and the doorframe in order to release a latch or spring lock.��

A loid is a thin piece of celluloid, credit card, or similar device used to loid a lock. It must be thin enough to fit between a door and a frame and flexible enough that you can pull and bend it into the lock’s mechanisms.

Example: If we can’t find the key in time, we’re going to have to loid the door.

The first records of the term loid come from around the 1950s. It is a shortening of the term celluloid.

Celluloid is a thin plastic made from nitrocellulose and camphor, normally used in the production of motion-picture and photography film but also effective at opening locks.

What are some words that share a root or word element with loid?��

• celluloid

What are some words that often get used in discussing loid?

• angle
• burglar
• force
• lock
• slide
• spring

What are some words loid may be commonly confused with?

• Lloyd

Loid is a slang term used to describe using a piece of celluloid or plastic to open a locked door.

Fun fact 1: I learned how to loid a lock with my library card because I was a latchkey kid who forgot her house key often.

Fun fact 2: I once broke a window to get into my house when I was locked out. I broke it so cleanly, my dad said to me, "I can't even be mad."

— InfoSecSherpa (@InfoSecSherpa)

Yep, but a single yake lock could have been slipped with a “loid” ( piece of plastic). Now show me it working correctly on a london bar, and decent mortice locks…

— mick wearing (@michaelwearing)

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True or False?

You can use a credit card as a loid.