squad
IPA: skwˈɑd
noun
- A group of people organized for some common purpose, usually of about ten members.
- A unit of tactical military personnel, or of police officers, usually of about ten members.
- (cricket, soccer, rugby) A group of potential players from whom a starting team and substitutes are chosen.
- (informal) A collective noun for a group of squid.
- (slang) One's friend group, taken collectively; one's peeps.
- (UK, dialect) Sloppy mud.
- (US politics) An informal group of left-wing Democrats in the House of Representatives.
verb
- (intransitive) To act as part of, or on behalf of, a squad.
- (transitive, US, medical slang) To transport by ambulance.
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Examples of "squad" in Sentences
- He is the leader of the squad.
- He was the captain of the squad.
- His introduction to the first team squad was inauspicious.
- He holds the tag as the fastest member of the Rovers squad.
- He was the youngest member of the Scotland squad at the finals.
- Maybe it did, but this squad is a legitimate contender in the East.
- Mickey was the first member of the squad to be killed by the mutants.
- = _A sentry squad_ is a squad posted in observation at an indicated point.
- He is the captain of the team, and he is a highly valued member of the squad.
- Before the WWII, the Yugoslav team was unimaginable without him in the squad.
- A pyromaniac is coming from past to menace the old members of a firemen squad.
- He's the only member of the squad who can pull the others into a cohesive unit.
- I'm putting a team into an Edinburgh Summer league and the squad is a bit on the thin side.
- Whereas the title squad's unselfish play some times led to passing to a fault, the current crew lean toward faulty passing.
- The driving force for the current squad is Shanavia Dowdell, two-time WAC player of the year and this year's tournament MVP.
- The Chick-fil-A Bowl, to be played Dec. 31 at 7: 30 p.m. in Atlanta, pits an ACC team against a squad from the Southeastern Conference.
- The first few chapters, which describe a stakeout in which Gunvald Larsson of the homicide squad is reluctantly involved, are brilliant.
- Not everyone in the squad is the same age, he says, perhaps thinking of Kevin Davies, who has just received his first England call-up at the age of 33.
- After a particularly harrowing battle where the squad is able to overcome a Nazi ambush Zab is asked about what happened and can barely remember the event.
- Based on the data in the two previous categories, how many minutes/matches/days/weeks would it take for United to score against RSL at Rio Tinto Stadium, where the home squad is 11-0-4 and has allowed seven goals?