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- Squib - 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.
- Squib - a. - A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
- Squib - a. - A sarcastic speech or publication; a petty lampoon; a brief, witty essay.
- Squib - a. - A writer of lampoons.
- Squib - a. - A paltry fellow.
- Squib - v. i. - To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.
- Squibbed - imp. & p. p. - of Squib
- Squibbing - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Squib
- Squib - v. i. - To throw squibs; to utter sarcatic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute; as, to squib a little debate.