Definitions for squib

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Spelling: [skwib]

IPA: /skwɪb/

Squib is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in squib (biqsu).

Definitions for squib

noun

1. a short and witty or sarcastic saying or writing.
2. Journalism. a short news story, often used as a filler.
3. a small firework, consisting of a tube or ball filled with powder, that burns with a hissing noise terminated usually by a slight explosion.
4. a firecracker broken in the middle so that it burns with a hissing noise but does not explode.
5. Australian. a coward.
6. an electric, pyrotechnic device for firing the igniter of a rocket engine, especially a solid-propellant engine.
7. Obsolete. a mean or paltry fellow.

verb (used with object)

1. to assail in squibs or lampoons.
2. to toss, shoot, or utilize as a squib.

verb (used without object)

1. to write squibs.
2. to shoot a squib.
3. to explode with a small, sharp sound.
4. to move swiftly and irregularly.
5. Australian. to be afraid. to flee; escape.

Origin of squib

First recorded in 1515-25; origin uncertain

Examples for squib

“I could turn him with a bit of a bush,” said squib, glancing at Gouws, who was drawing gradually nearer to the party.

We entreat our readers not to receive the above as a squib of invention.

With eleven illustrations, designed by squib, and engraved by Point.

Here is a pistol, it is not loaded, but there is powder in the pan, and you can squib it.

But the squib is run to the end of the rope: room for the prodigy of valour.

Would Leonidas have fastened a squib to the robe of the Spartan mother?

Equally acceptable for its rarity would be a squib on Mrs. Piozzi without a reference to the brewery.

The squib had long burnt out by the time we got there; but the sight that met our astonished gaze was magnificent.

He arrived at his climax like a squib that attains its ideal.

It is generally believed that squib has not gone guinea-fowl shooting among ostriches since that day!