Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/skwɪb/ · noun
(military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode..
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.
Ye nevvs-paper vvitlings! ye pert ſcribbling folks! / VVho copied his ſquibs, and re-echoed his jokes, […]
Of the dozen or so surviving articles, squibs, and letters to the editor, the most remarkable appeared in the Whip and Satirist’s February 12, 1842, issue, and disclosed the existence of a cabal of gay men in New York's otherwise wholesome nightscape of brothels and riots.
November 1, 1709, Richard Steele, The Tatler The squibs are those who in the common phrase of the world are called libellers, lampooners, and pamphleteers.
In this squib I will prove that the number of possible metrical parsings into feet under these assumptions […]
Its a hard case when men of good deserving / must either driven be perforce to sterving / or asked for their pas by everie squib.
I'm putting my foot down, Janelle. We're raising a nation of squibs!
Use squib when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Squib means (military) A small firework that is intended to spew sparks rather than explode..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
English Navy squibs set fire to two dozen enemy ships in a Dutch harbor during the 16th-century battle against the Spanish Armada.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.