squib
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Is squib a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.Examples: "English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th-century battle against the Spanish Armada."; "The making and selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about on any street, is […] punishable by fine."
2. (mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
3. (US) Any small firecracker sold to the general public, usually in special clusters designed to explode in series after a single master fuse is lit.US
4. (firearms) A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck.
5. (automotive) The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
6. (film, theater) In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface or a gunshot wound on an actor.
verb (English)
1. (colloquial, dated, ambitransitive) To throw squibs; to utter sarcastic or severe reflections; to contend in petty dispute.Examples: "to squib a little debate"ambitransitivecolloquialdated
2. (Australia) To dodge something difficult, to bottle.Examples: "He squibbed the opportunity to push the claim that Kyoto should remain the flagship for international action - because deep down those on the other side know that the world has moved on beyond Kyoto."Australia
Definition source: Wiktionary