/skwɪd/
OriginUnknown. Perhaps a sailors' alteration of squirt.
- 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.
- UK, humorous, rare, slangA quid; one pound sterling.
“Can you lend me five squid? I feel like a bacon sarnie.”
“Press the fifty squid button – "Insufficient funds".
[…]
A thousandth of a million squid or two monkeys / Or a whole fifty scores”
- A vampire squid.
- uncountableA South Korean children's game where players, divided into offense and defense, compete on a squid-shaped field; the offensive team tries to reach a designated area, and the defensive team attempts to block them.
- abbreviation, acronym, alt-ofAcronym of superconducting quantum interference device, a sensor that uses certain quantum effects to detect small magnetic fields.
- To fish with a squid fishhook.
- 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).
Formssquids(plural) · squid(plural) · squids(present, singular, third-person) · squidding(participle, present) · squidded(participle, past) · squidded(past) · SQUIDs(plural)