Squib

[squib]

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

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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.

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


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.


Squib

Squib , n. [OE. squippen, swippen, to move swiftky, Icel. svipa to swoop, flash, dart, whip; akin to AS. swipian to whip, and E. swift, a. See Swift, a.] 1. 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.
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.
The making and selling of fireworks, and squibs . . . is punishable.
2. (Mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse. 3. A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.
Who copied his squibs, and re'89choed his jokes.
4. A writer of lampoons. [Obs.]
The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libelers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.
5. A paltry fellow. [Obs.] Spenser.

Squib

Squib, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Squibbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Squibbing.] To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate. [Colloq.]

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.

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

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