SMIDSY

English

Acronym

SMIDSY

1. (UK, Australia) Sorry mate, I didn′t see you.
   • 2010, Matt Croucher, Flash Point, page 13,

     The motorist claimed Smidsy after the crash — ‘Sorry mate I didn't see you’.

Usage notes

The acronym is used by motorcyclists and cyclists to describe traffic collisions in which the driver of a car or larger vehicle claims not to have noticed a two-wheel biker. Usually derogatory, in that the intended implication is often that the driver was not at fault. SMIDSY was also used as a title of a BBC series on road safety broadcast in the 1980s.