Definitions for SQUID

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SQUID squid

Spelling: [skwid]

IPA: /skwɪd/

Squid is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in SQUID (diqsu).

Definitions for SQUID

noun

1. any of several ten-armed cephalopods, as of the genera Loligo and Ommastrephes, having a slender body and a pair of rounded or triangular caudal fins and varying in length from 4–6 inches (10–15 cm) to 60–80 feet (18–24 meters).
2. superconducting quantum interference device: a device that senses minute changes in magnetic fields, used to indicate neural activity in the brain.

Origin of SQUID

First recorded in 1605-15; origin uncertain

Examples for SQUID

But squid, squid, everywhere, the most valuable prey of all!

Aboard the Charming Lass the squid “jigging” went on for a couple of hours.

But zey'll eat nearly any fish an' zey are quite fon' o' squid.

They were waked out of their bunks one black night by yells of "squid O!"

The squid is a very small edition of the giant devilfish or octopus.

This bruschetta, topped with squid, tangy goat cheese, fragrant mint, and sweet roasted garlic, is a meal on toast.

There is squid to follow, and sea urchins and a seaweed salad.

This food is chiefly the squid or Sepia octopus, known also by the name of the cuttle-fish.

For seafood try Clamman in Southhampton, proudly peddling tuna, bass, scallops, and squid all caught by local fishermen.

Only a salmon or a squid could have been the teachers of that wondrous learning!