Squib

[skwib]

解释:

(noun.) firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise.

校对:莫蒂默--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.

(a.) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.

(a.) A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.

(a.) A writer of lampoons.

(a.) A paltry fellow.

(v. i.) To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.

校对:洛丽

同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Cracker.[2]. Lampoon, pasquinade, satire.

v. n. [Colloquial.] Make lampoons, throw squibs, make sarcastic remarks.

编辑:罗伊

解释:

n. a paper tube filled with combustibles thrown up into the air burning and bursting: a petty lampoon.—v.t. to aim squibs at: to lampoon.—v.i. to write lampoons: to use squibs: to sound like a squib exploding.

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