Squib
[skwib]
Definition
(noun.) firework consisting of a tube filled with powder (as a broken firecracker) that burns with a fizzing noise.
Checker: Mortimer--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Checker: Lorrie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Cracker.[2]. Lampoon, pasquinade, satire.
v. n. [Colloquial.] Make lampoons, throw squibs, make sarcastic remarks.
Checker: Roy
Definition
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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Examples
- Squibs and crackers were thrown about. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In time, rockets, squibs and torpedoes were included in the consignment, but it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that their use became general in America. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- If they succeed, the squibs are discharged and the bull races madly about the arena. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I am sorry for the loss of the _squibs_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- They try to fasten on the bull their _banderillas_--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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