Squib

Quick meaning: Squib is a noun meaning (military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.

Meaning

(military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode.

More Meanings

1. A similar device used to ignite an explosive or launch a rocket, etc.
2. (mining) A kind of slow match or safety fuse.
3. (firearms) A malfunction in which the fired projectile does not have enough force behind it to exit the barrel, and thus becomes stuck.
4. (automotive) The heating element used to set off the sodium azide pellets in a vehicle's airbag.
5. (film, theater) In special effects, a small explosive used to replicate a bullet hitting a surface or a gunshot wound on an actor.
6. (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.
7. (dated) A short piece of witty writing; a lampoon.

Example Sentences

I'm putting my foot down, Janelle. We're raising a nation of squibs!

Ye nevvs-paper vvitlings! ye pert ſcribbling folks! / VVho copied his ſquibs, and re-echoed his jokes, […]

In this squib I will prove that the number of possible metrical parsings into feet under these assumptions […]

The making and selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about on any street, is […] punishable by fine.

Word Forms

• squibs
• squibbing
• squibbed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sparkler, sparklet, firecracker, bomblet, sparke, whizz-bang.

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