squid
IPA: skwˈɪd
noun
- Any of several carnivorous marine cephalopod mollusks, of the order Teuthida, having a mantle, eight arms, and a pair of tentacles
- A fishhook with a piece of bright lead, bone, or other substance fastened on its shank to imitate a squid.
- (US, military, slang, mildly derogatory) A sailor in the Navy.
- (UK, slang, humorous, rare) A quid; one pound sterling.
- (slang, motorcycling, derogatory) A motorcyclist, especially a sport biker, characterized by reckless riding and lack of protective gear.
- Acronym of superconducting quantum interference device, a sensor that uses certain quantum effects to detect small magnetic fields.
verb
- (fishing) To fish with the kind of hook called a squid.
- (parachuting) To cause squidding (an improper, partial, parachute inflation, that results in the sides of the parachute folding in on the center, and pulsating back and forth).
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Examples of "squid" in Sentences
- The others are the squid and the sea serpent.
- It eats krill and Squid in the Northern seas.
- The plan succeeds and the squid appears dead.
- Squid have the largest eyes in the animal kingdom.
- The file is cached locally and on the squids anyway.
- Under the sea, there are stingray, squid, and other fish.
- To some, that squid is simply a bizarre natural phenomenon.
- It flies low over the water and feeds on squid, fish and offal.
- The same is true of the chitinous gladius of squid and octopus.
- Ishiru in the Noto Peninsula is made from the sardine and the squid.
- Next time we do meat and not fish; getting four whole squid is intimidating!
- The giant squid is an "eat the crew, ask questions later" kind of cephalopod
- He discovered the squid giant axon and the corresponding squid giant synapse.
- So if the squid is associated with females and vaginae, and Doctor Manhattan is associated with penises,
- Place pan in oven to cook for 5 minutes until shrimps become pink and squid is slightly brown at the edge.
- "Rapid changes of intracellular free calcium concentration: detection by metallochromic indicator dyes in squid giant axon," Biophys.
- 0.0.0.0: 3128 0.0.0.0: * LISTEN 12384 / (squid) ifeatu@ubuntu: / etc / squid$ here is the error I get when I redirect all firefox traffic thru the proxy ...
- Nothing a writer says surprises me anymore, not even if Jeff VanderMeer told me he did his first drafts while dangling naked upside from a coconut palm, writing in squid ink through the hollowed fingerbone of William S. Burroughs.